Insufficient disk space on database servers was the cause of Toyota car production grinding to a halt for 36 hours at 14 plants in Japan late in August. But just how does such a situation arise?

Capacity planning is a critical aspect that ensures that the infrastructure can handle current and future demands without over-allocating resources. Whether scaling up a new application or optimizing ...

Capacity planning is becoming an increasingly important way to balance future hardware costs with computing needs. Any enterprise, from a mom-and-pop e-tailer to a multinational corporation, can ...

Oracle has introduced the Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack to offer customers a cost-effective way to add storage to an Oracle Exadata Database Machine. "There are customers, earlier Exadata ...

Extending its leadership in the enterprise tape market, Oracle announced high availability and capacity enhancements to its StorageTek tape libraries and drives. New features of the StorageTek SL8500 ...