Re: Storage array advice anyone?

There's a difference, though - the mainframe was massive hardware with massive redundancy implemented in hardware, resulting in a massive cost, but very low maintenance

Larry's vision is one big database, one big application instance, running on hundreds of small commodity servers with redundancy implemented in software, resulting in a very low cost but very high maintenance.

Into the gap steps companies like mine (and our competitors) that try to bridge the gap - aid in the management of large numbers of commodity servers.

Thanks,
Matt

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On Dec 17, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Hostetter, Jay M wrote:



> We used to call this centralized setup a "mainframe."=20

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> Is that not similar to what Oracle (Larry E) wants on the database

> level, to centralize everything into one piece and just average

> everything across that one piece hoping that with some resource

> manager/smart logic you can force some inequality?

>

> Is that not as what UNIX/Linux/NT is doing with CPU's?

>

> It only looks that the storage piece is still not that mature in 

> global.

> Or I missed something?

>

> Regards,

> Zoran Martic

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