One of the applications that I’m working on uses archived documents, there is no NoSQL here, just plain tiff files with indexes in Oracle database. Everything related to document access, permissions, conversions, watermarking, security, encryption … is managed by the application itself. So I had to keep my cluster permanently connected to a SAN storage [...]

I assisted today at the Efficient Edge 2010 conference organized by Wipro in a partnership with Sun/Oracle. The conference was held today in Intercontinental Jeddah from 8h30 to 13h30. Sincerely beside the commercial aspect of the conference, it was really very informative, and it was a pleasure to meet few names from Sun Microsystems mainly Iyad Al-Bukhari, Andy Clark, and Thomas Bretscher.