AMD CPU Update

Backup Update

If you are planning on upgrading/deploying a backup platform these two (1 2)links could be useful.

Oracle Tuning - I/O and CMT

Some of below links are outdated when it comes to some details but general ideas still hold.

Oracle I/O: Supply and Demand
Direct I/O and Oracle
Direct I/O and Oracle (2)
Oracle and File System Performance
Oracle Built-in Parallelism on Multi CPU/Core Systems
Parallel Index Creation on Multi CPU/Core Systems in Oracle
Parallelizing Oracle Backup with RMAN

Sunset Perceived by geeks

Rock Internals

Tesla - 240 cores

ZFS + SSD

Two interesting posts about ZFS and SSD: 1 2

ps. look for ZFS L2ARC and ZFS SLOG

IP Instancec and CE interfaces

If you need to get ce interface working with IP instances with Zones on Solaris 10 - now you finally can. Go for patch 137086-01.

Snow Leopard

Mac OS Server Edition code named Snow Leopard has been announced and they did include ZFS.