EMC World Day 2 (2011)

Yesterday was EMC World day 2 and it was another great day at the conference. I started the day a little late as I was out pretty late on Monday night at a party. I was abe to great some great sessions in during the day however. The first session that I hit was “SQL […]

EMC World 2011 Day 1

So today was the first official day of EMC world. I had a great time meeting some fantastic people like Chuck Hollis from EMC. There were also some fantastic sessions. This year EMC is doing something new and putting the sessions online through an iPad app as well as putting them on their Facebook page. […]

EMC World 2011 Day 0

So today began EMC World 2011.  It started in true EMC style with a great party, sponsored by UniSys.  The party was held at the Hotel pool which seems a little strange but EMC made it work.  It was a little windy last night, apparently not even EMC can control the weather. I met some […]

Enterprise environment are moving more and more towards service oriented functional groups. SAN as a service, database as a service, etc. So SAN guys are saying DBAs shouldn’t worry about this, they use gigantic arrays with 100’s of spindles, they guarantee performance, etc. What are your thoughts on this?

I would say that the SAN admins are nuts if they think that the DBAs aren’t going to worry about storage performance.  There is no magic SAN dust which keeps everything running fast all of the time.  If you put enough load on the array then performance will be impacted, no matter how many disks […]