I’ve been busy reading and testing everything I can with Delphix, whenever I get a chance. I’m incredibly fascinated by copy data management and the idea of doing this with Exadata is nothing new, as Oracle has it’s own version with sparse copy. The main challenge is that Exadata’s version of this is kind of clunky and really doesn’t have the management user interface that Delphix offers. There is a lot of disk that comes with an Exadata, not just CPU, network bandwidth and memory. Now you can’t utilize offloading with a virtualized database, but you may not be interested…
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While chatting on slack the other day, one of my peers asked if I’d seen that ESG Global had done a write up on Veritas Velocity. Velocity is a product that won’t be available until the end of 2016 and is considered “Alpha”. I was surprised that anyone allowed to participate in Alpha was able to publish a description on the product, but that’s not my call to make. What I found interesting about the article, written by ESG, discusses how Veritas Velocity, “… is combining its sophisticated approaches to data management with its broader ability to deliver superior data protection and information availability…