Why I like the term “Research Lab”
I love the term “Research Lab” to refer to our collection of Oracle Engineered Systems. It’s because that’s what we do with the equipment. We test it, we try weird experiments with it, we take it apart with a screw driver and we put it back together again. And lot’s of times we break things. But better that we break them in the lab than on a production system at a client site. The lab is a great learning environment for us and our customers. Enkitec has had a pretty solid lab for a while, but it’s about to get a lot bigger.
Here’s an abbreviated list of the what we expect to end up with in the lab in the next few weeks.
- Lot’s of Exadata’s (V2, X2, X3, X4)
- A SPARC SuperCluster
- A few Exalytics’s
- At least one Exalogic
- A couple of Big Data Appliances (BDAs)
- Several Oracle Database Appliances (ODAs)
- A ZFS Appliance or 2
- An Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance (OVCA)
So here’s to the new and improved Research Lab. Hopefully a few of the new systems will have the cool built in beer shelf like out current BDA.
I’ll post some pictures when the new stuff shows up. 🙂