If you are concerned about performance, the fundamental problem with SAN storage is that it is external and shared....
In the past few months, two White Star Software customers experienced one-in-a-million interruptions in availability of their OpenEdge application. I’m not talking about FIRE and BRIMSTONE DISASTERS. It was not Irma nor Harvey nor any other natural disaster. I’m talking about events like a construction...
If you read Part I, you’ve already analyzed your data and designed your Type II storage areas and you’re ready to dump your existing data and load it into the new structure. If you’re still using Type I storage areas, this will probably be the...
Picture a Rubik’s cube in your mind: at the core is the holy grail of system performance, and every colored tile is a potential bottleneck preventing you from attaining that perfection. On one side, you find database issues, another side is the network, there are...
Congratulations! You finally decided to join the modern world and take advantage of Type II Storage Areas (SAII). Hey – better late than never. There’s a lot of old, out-of-date or just-plain-wrong information out there, so ignore all that stuff. I have conveniently digested some...
Over the past 10 or so years, the number of [AIX, HPUX, Solaris] to Linux migrations have been increasing steadily, along with the “safe” recommended maximum number of concurrent users. The reason is simple, of course: cost. Unless your OpenEdge application is serving thousands of...
I was called in to consult at a site where the backups were exhibiting strange behaviour. The backup file was the normal 15Gb in size and the time stamp was from last night, but when they restored it in test there was no new data....