On May 12th, Ori Weizman, Senior Solutions Architect at Silk, sat down with Keith Lyon, Senior Solutions Engineer at Blue Triangle, to discuss Headless Commerce in the retail industry and how multi-channel customer experiences are impacting the data layer.
One of the most ‘untouchables’ of the ‘untouchable’ workloads are AIX and Solaris hosted. These are the traditional ‘Big Iron Unix’ go-to platforms for large enterprise workloads. Each is based on a company specific RISC Chip: Power PC in the case of IBM and Sparc for Sun. AIX and Solaris are the correlated Unix OSes for each. A good number of high value, high activity on-premise workloads are still running on these RISC based commercial Unix platforms. These ‘classic’ 64-bit RISC chip-based Unix operating systems are nearly identical to Linux (or rather Linux is nearly functionally identical to them as they pre-date it). But they are of a different word byte order.
One of the most complex and common enterprise application suites available today is Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). EBS is perhaps the poster child representative of ‘stuff that will never be fully refactored’ due to its massive size and complexity – EBS is actually an enormous collection of PL/SQL, Java, miscellaneous code, databases, web applications, business process and functions that are wrapped together in a semi-integrated suite. Nearly every Fortune 1000 company has parts of EBS running somewhere, with a massive ecosystem of Oracle and other 3rd party (usually custom) ancillary processes, programs, feeds, and targets associated with it. It is usually at the center of the business function enterprise application ecosystem and as such generates an enormous amount of data gravity around which the vast majority of the other corporate applications revolve. EBS is a huge gravity well that keeps most other applications firmly tethered to where it lives. EBS leverages an n-tier architecture with (currently) over eight hundred different schemas and many thousands of tables.
When you go to a doctor’s office or hospital, one of the first things they check for is your heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature.
On April 14th, Silk International CTO, Tom O’Neill, and Director of Solution Architects, Dwight Wallace, sat down to discuss untouchable SQL workloads: what they are, how you migrate them to the cloud, and examples of what other companies have done.
Among its many incredible capabilities, one bonus of the Silk Cloud Platform is its ability to prevent cloud overprovisioning. This amazing capability really resonated for me recently. I was provisioning an Oracle server from the Azure Marketplace, and I ran across the below chart. Maybe this is old news for some, but to me it is immediately clear that you must max out resources to get max available I/O. And the delta between the middle and the top is huge. If I needed just 4TB to accommodate my small but very heavily utilized OLTP RDBMS – I’d get only 7500 IO/sec. I’d have to max out to 32 TB to get the maximum listed throughput of 20000 IO/sec.
Last week, the Silk team was excited to attend its first HIMSS event. We had a booth on the exhibition floor surrounded by some of the most innovative healthcare companies in the business – including Microsoft for which Silk is an IP Co-Sell Partner . From the floor, we were able to offer hundreds of attendees demonstrations of how the Silk Cloud Platform offers electronic health record (EHR) workloads the fastest performance on the cloud.
More and more organizations are looking to move their most important data to the cloud and off of on premise data centers. But the process of doing so won’t always run smoothly. There will be multiple challenges along the way that your team will need to overcome. But the prize of successfully migrating to the cloud will be well worth it.
If you’re using the cloud to store music, photos, or the beginning chicken scratches of the next great American novel, the speed at which you are able to access, download, or upload these files might be good enough. But the cloud isn’t just used to store all the photos from your niece’s first birthday party. For a lot of companies, the cloud is used for important, mission-critical workloads that are complex and require a much faster speed than what is typically provided. In this blog, we’ll look at what high performance cloud computing is, why it is needed, and some of the use cases for it in key industries.
Silk recently hosted a webinar, Lift, Shift and Evolve: Moving Oracle onto Azure, with two experts on high performance Oracle databases and Microsoft Azure: