While most customers immediately understand how the magic of Oracle’s Hybrid Columnar Compression, intelligent storage servers and flash memory make Exadata uniquely powerful against home-grown database systems, some people think that Exalogic is nothing more than a bunch of x86 servers, a storage appliance and an InfiniBand (IB) network …
If I had to formulate in one sentence what my job and that of my teammates is, I’d say something like:
“To show our customers the business value of Oracle’s Engineered Systems”
Because at the end of the day, customers pay real money only if there’s some …
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It just occurred to …
One of the first things that customers and sales teams realize when dealing with Engineered Systems is: They fundamentally change the IT architecture of a business.
Change is good, it means progress. But change is sometimes seen as a bad thing: Change comes with fear.
The truth is that Engineered …
I changed into a new role at Oracle: I now work for the EMEA Engineered Systems Architecture Team (ESAT). We support Oracle’s EMEA Engineered Systems business by engaging with customers, enabling our field organization with trainings and through evangelization.
You can call me biased towards Engineered Systems (no link …
This is the blog of Constantin Gonzalez, a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, with more than 25 years of IT experience.
The views expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my current or previous employers.