So, you are thinking of upgrading to a new release of OpenVOS, or to a newer hardware platform, and you want to know the effect on the response time or the throughput of your application? What do you do to answer this question? Read on to hear some suggestions.
I’ve been fielding questions from VOS customers who are considering upgrading to OpenVOS Release 17.0 and they are all asking the same question – what’s new, and why should I upgrade? My strong recommendation is that VOS customers upgrade to OpenVOS Release 17.0.2 at their next maintenance opportunity. This is the latest maintenance release. My [...]
“We just upgraded from a T1 (1.544 mbps) to a T3 (44.736 mbps) so why is it still taking 90 minutes to copy that file?” The simple answer is that more capacity is not the same as faster bytes. If you increase your capacity by almost 29 (44.736 / 1.544) times you may be able [...]