Databases in the Cloud

It is a fact that the majority of DBI customers measurably reduce CPU utilization and I/O rates by 30-90% within just a few hours of installation, and additional resource savings are commonly gained in the days that follow.

Cloud Computing

Proponents and advocates of cloud computing would like you to believe that the cloud contains vastly scalable, if not infinite, resources that are available for your consumption as needed. In the fine print, they might forget to tell you that you will be paying for your piece of the cloud according to the resources (CPU) that you consume. Whether you are deploying clouds locally within your organization or buying a time slice of a cloud in the sky, it is always fashionable best practices to tune database servers for optimal CPU efficiency. See Also: Infrastructure Costs