On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 23:31 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 22:14 -0700, JD wrote:
I've personally deployed Tier 1 databases - Oracle RAC in all of its glory - on cloud infrastructure. Our RAC nodes outperformed their physical counterparts in benchmark testing. And they did it with better availability and redundancy built in.
I would be interested in seeing independently published benchmarking results and not in-house benchmarking done by the devs of the installation.
The benchmarking was done by the client, and is being independently verified. It will be eventually published for public consumption as well
- most likely around the end of August or so. Remind me and I'll send
you a copy.
Almost forgot. Have a look at: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/exchange/
...It turns out the the current performance record for a little enterprise application called Microsoft Exchange is done on VMware vSphere, which just happens to be the leading platform supporting cloud based infrastructure today.
Yes - Exchange runs faster on cloud infrastructure than it does on running directly on physical hardware. I've benchmarked similar using Phoronix benchmark suite. Because of how things can get optimized, such performance increases are actually fairly common.