Eric Reid
Principal Software Engineer
Almost-30 year veteran of Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Home-based in Southwest Michigan, USA. As part of Systems' Cloud Application Engineering group, my emphasis is on empowering software and hardware partners to run - and run best - on SPARC and Solaris.
Degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Architecture and Software Engineering. Bass Trombone player. Steward of local and global environmental concerns. World traveller. Tinkerer and coder.
Recent Blogs
Now available - Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.5
We note this week the release of Oracle VM Server for SPARC version 3.5, and as such wish to share that news with our partners and customers! Lots of improvements to virtual networking support and live migration, so this release is definitely worth checking out. As per usual, it's already available ...
IFS Demonstrates Performant End-to-End Encryption on SPARC With ...
Recent test results from global Enterprise Software provider IFS show excellent performance and scalability on SPARC and Solaris. One of the many compelling takeaways noted centered around the solid performance of their Database Tier using full data encryption. End-to-end encryption of relational da...
IFS Applications 9 Demonstrates Impressive Scaling on SPARC S7
As part of the recent joint IFS/Oracle testing of IFS Applications 9 on SPARC/Solaris, excellent application scalability was demonstrated. Five thousand simulated end users were unleashed against a configuration which included the following SPARC-based database tier system: One SPARC S7-2L server, r...
IBM DB2 v11.1 is Coming to Solaris 11
Lookie what IBM announced last month! Better late than never, and we're thrilled about it. Some things to note: No Solaris 10 support No X86 support No support for BLU or pureScale...
How Leading Transportation Services Company Realizes Greater System ...
Thales is a multinational company that designs and builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, defense, transportation and security markets. As a leader in cutting-edge urban transportation technology, Thales has already delivered numerous metro projects in Malaysia, Hong Kong...