[five82]

The tech was solid but the implementation left a lot to be desired. I still shudder when I think about the RHEL 6 Itanium DB cluster I "inherited" and had to maintain. A very temperamental serial console that would constantly freeze up. No local storage so we were forced to boot from SAN. I prayed every time we rebooted that it would actually come back up. Plenty of times it didn't.

[rbanffy]

But that’s all on the tooling side. It’s not really Itanic’s fault. Had it run a decently reliable OS, it’d be fine. It never lived up to the hype, but caches were humongous for the time and more than once they were able to hold most of my working dataset.