The Raven Report

Wow, it’s been quite a while since I last posted, kind of changed focus, but hopefully I can find some time a post a little more in the near future. As of late I’ve been doing a lot of performance analysis and tweaking, and I’d like to share some exciting results with all of you.

Over the past few months system performance especially disk has been the bane of my existence. Working with my team we have uncovered a few elusive bottlenecks is disk subsystems of a couple of our critical systems and really learned a lot.  I have quite a bit written up on this topic and hope to share that in the coming posts.

One of the big things we found was the dramatic performance increases one can obtain with the use of SSD disks when it pertains to DAS and SAN storage, the big issue here is cost being that 1TB of usable SSD Storage is over $150k. That is quite the pill to swallow, but certain applications that can justify the expense can see remarkable improvements.

Well until next time.

Oh yeah, Burger King finaly sent my wife a check for $20 they stole from her.