Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jan 17, 2011
Dear blog readers,
I’m working on a small story about database consolidation and interested to learn what are success and failures that others are going through. While we have our own experience at Pythian, I find it interesting to learn about what others are going through. If you have enough details, it would be nice to see your feedback along those lines.
1. Why consolidation project started – targets?
2. What were expectations / success criteria and how they were set?
3. What was the scope of the consolidation project.
4. Expected time-frame and whether you are done by now.
5. Was the project considered successful? Goals met (see item 2)?
6. What were the measurements before and after? Were there any?
7. Issues faced and how they were solved or worked around.
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Interesting facts like platform, number of databases, versions, consolidation strategy and etc.
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Sharing your experience here would be beneficial for the community at large. Besides, don’t you want to win a book?
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Posted by Marc Fielding on Oct 25, 2010
Update: recordings are now available
Following up on my earlier webinar Implementing Oracle Exadata – Strategies for Success, I’ll be giving another webinar to present the results of the Exadata implementation at LinKShare. I’ll be talking about actual performance results, our zero-downtime go-live, compression experiences, and performance tuning in an Exadata environment.
The webinar will be on Thursday, November 4 at 12 noon, eastern time (the time in your timezone).
Registration link
Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Oct 18, 2010
I’m happy to announce the winners of this year’s t-shirt and creative blogger’s contest at the Oracle OpenWorld 2010 Annual Bloggers Meetup.
Thanks for your patience (Chet)…. drumroll please….
1. As mentioned earlier, in Log Buffer #203, Asif Momen, of the Momen Blog was the big winner of the HP X310 DataVault. Asif, let us know how you’re enjoying your prize! Thanks again to HP! Asif is pictured below, and I apologise for cutting off the top of your head (was focused on the tshirt…)
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Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Oct 7, 2010
After over a hundred hours of hard work, Pythian has achieved multiple specializations under our Platinum membership level of the Oracle PartnerNetwork’s OPN Specialized program. We’re proud to be recognized by Oracle as a value-added services partner.
We’d like to shout out a big thank you to Pythian’s dedicated team of database experts who continue to demonstrate and prove why Pythian is trusted by so many clients for Oracle database and applications infrastructure support and consulting services. And, we’d like to give an even bigger thank you to our valuable customers, for your ongoing partnership and confidence in our company.
Check out our shiny new badges of honor, below:
But there is no rest for the wicked. Stay tuned for more news as we announce the next round of specializations.
Posted by Marc Fielding on Sep 21, 2010
Congratulations to Chris Marlowe of Oppenheimer Funds and Bill Mitchell of Alliant Energy, attendees to my Exadata session yesterday. Both are lucky winners of the a flight with the inimitable Sean D Tucker and the Oracle Challenger.
For those of you who missed the session, keep your eyes on this blog for a recording, coming soon.
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Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Sep 19, 2010
Oracle Recognizes Pythian as a Value-Added Partner for Core Database Expertise and Outstanding Consulting Services
PYTHIAN NEWS: As Announced today at Oracle OpenWorld 2010, San Francisco, CA.
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The Pythian Group, Inc., a leading provider of remote database infrastructure services, and a Platinum member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has achieved four specializations under the OPN Specialized Program. By attaining “specialized status” Pythian has demonstrated and met rigorous business and technical competency criteria for core Oracle solutions including Oracle Database 11g, Database Performance Tuning, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), and Oracle Linux. Through specialization Pythian demonstrates solid experience, expertise and success with planning, deploying and managing Oracle products in complex and large-scale environments, providing added value to Oracle end-customers.
Pythian has been an Oracle partner since 1999, providing services across the entire Oracle technology stack since the company’s inception. Pythian consulted on the implementation of Oracle Exadata at LinkShare Corporation, the first in New York. The company’s DBA and senior consulting resources serve over 140 clients worldwide, including FOXSports Interactive, and have been engaged in many Oracle-related projects. In addition; Pythian is the outsourced database services team for Grasshopper, known as the virtual phone system for entrepreneurs.
“We have worked with Pythian for a number of years at FOXSports Interactive and view this specialization as a further commitment to the Oracle expertise they provide,” said Sheli Reynolds, Vice President, Engineering.
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Sep 19, 2010
It’s Sunday morning early in San Francisco and the biggest ever Oracle OpenWorld is about to start. It looks like it’s also going to be the busiest ever OpenWorld for me — my schedule looks crazy and I still need to do the slides for my Thursday sessions (one on ASM and one on cloud computing). Fortunately, my slides for today’s presentation are all ready to go.
OK. Don’t let me carry away — I started this post with the intention to write about what I expect Oracle to announce at this OpenWorld and it seems like the most important announcements happen at tonight’s keynote. I hasn’t been at the Oracle ACE Directors briefing so unlike them, all I can say is pure speculation-based and my wishes of what should be covered. Actually, unlike them, I actually CAN say at least something. :)
- Oracle Exadata Database Machine v3 (x2-8) — well, that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody by now. I fully expect upgrade of the hardware — new Intel CPUs (probably with more cores), more memory, possibly more flash (this technology moves really quick these days). Maybe 10GbE network can be introduced to address some of the customers demands but I don’t think it’s needed that much. InfiniBand might just stay as it is — I think there is enough throughput but Marc Fielding noted that moving InfiniBand to the next speed level shouldn’t be very expensive. Other then cosmetic upgrade, I believe that hardware architecture will largely stay the same — it works very well, it’s proven and very successful. Maybe something should be done to let customers integrate Exadata better into their data-centers — folks keep complaining of inflexibility (and I think Oracle should stay firm on this and don’t let customer screw themselves up but who knows).
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Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Sep 13, 2010
Win a flight with Team Oracle at OOW!
What do Exadata & Team Oracle have in common? Extreme performance!
Join Pythian’s Marc Fielding and LinkShare’s Mike Aldrich for Implementing Exadata – A Case Study and you’ll find out how on Monday September 20th at 12:30pm PST.
You could be the lucky attendee to win the experience of a lifetime, a 45-minute flight with Team Oracle in Oracle Challenger, featuring Sean D. Tucker, the world’s premier air show performer.
Can you handle it? Extreme performance baby! Moscone South. Room 308. Be there!
On a side note, room numbers have been updated for all of our speaking sessions.
Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Aug 3, 2010
If you’re attending Oracle OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco, Sept. 19-23, 2010, be sure to stop by one of Pythian’s many sessions.
We’ll be all over the show, with experts Alex, and Marc speaking as listed below. Or, you might find Paul, Alex and others attending the bloggers meetup, participating in Oracle ACE/ACE Director activities, or at some of the User Group or OPN sessions on Sunday. Drop us a line on twitter @pythian while you’re at the show to connect with Pythian.
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Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Jul 7, 2010
Expert Services Allow Organizations to Effectively Evaluate, Migrate to and Manage World’s Fastest Database Machine
PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE
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The Pythian Group Inc., the preeminent remote database infrastructure services company and a Platinum member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) today announced the implementation of the Sun Oracle Database Machine at LinkShare Corporation, a division of Rakuten, Inc, and launch of its Oracle Exadata services practice. LinkShare, the leading performance marketing network provider, selected Pythian as its database services partner because of the company’s proven database management, data migration and performance tuning experience and successful track record of managing LinkShare’s databases. LinkShare is migrating to the Sun Oracle Database Machine to extend the capacity of their current database environment. After careful consideration, LinkShare opted for the Sun Oracle Database Machine for its performance, fault tolerance, reliability and cost advantages.
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