You may say, “It only takes me 3 hours to do a full backup of everything”, but over time backup windows are notorious for becoming too small. Backups are split over multiple days, technologies upgraded, etc. When planning a backup strategy, my approach is to eliminate the backup window altogether- that is do whatever…

Reporting projects are the kind of projects which never seem to end. After a couple iterations I’ve come to the following conclusions: Absolutely no reports should run on a production database. Moving/aggregating data from a production database to a reporting database using ETL tools prone to synchronization issues and pretty unreliable. The best option…

I’ve been working with Unix for a fairly long time now- about 13 years. I’ll admit that I started with Linux and thought it was light years ahead of SunOS 4.x running on those old SPARC machines- I mean who had heard of SPARC processors? I remember my boss trying to explain to me…

Systems Architects have years of experience in the various parts of the systems they work with. …They can cut your OP-EX by 90% and consolidate all your servers … Their systems do not know the meaning of the word Downtime… Optimization is the name of the game. Your site will be in the customer’s…