Some thoughts from last PoC
For the second time I have been involved with a proof of concept (PoC) where testing of an alternative hardware platform was the goal. Common for both PoCs were: The other option was Exadata Real Application Testing (RAT) was used to replay production recordings on the new hardware. And for the second time I have concluded that sales people take this too easy. It is not easy and assuming you will outperform previous platform just because you have a bunch of less expensive flash disks, cache cards, and more is arrogant at best. ...