ZFS for NetBSD
Oliver Gould submitted a ZFS port for NetBSD as a project for Googles Summer of Code. Sounds interesting and one further step for the availability of ZFS outside of Solaris....
links for 2007-04-25
pNFS Basics at OpenSolaris.org (tags: pNFS Solaris Opensolaris)
Kudos to the minds behind Sun Shared Shell
I´m really impressed. I used Sun Shared Shell in solving a customer problem a few minutes ago together with the customer and a colleague from Support Services, who told me...
Sun Shared Shell
Sometimes, you find some features and services of Sun by mere chance: Sun Shared Shell. Sounds really cool. A collaborative shell. Really helpful when you need to support a system...
Gartner about Sun
Sun Microsystems' improved revenue, substantial progress toward sustainable profitability and return to Unix server market leadership warrant an increased vendor rating of "positive." (Teaser abstract of the actual Gartner vendor...
Q3FY07: $0.02 profit per share
Sounds really promising : Sun Microsystems Delivers Another Quarter of Growth and Profitability Reports Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2007<. Obviously the media complaint that the increase in revenue...
Yet another ZFS benchmark
Yet another benchmark of ZFS: This time at Robert´s blog.The benchmark was done with the focus of comparing hardware and software raid configurations. He sees the replacement of failed disk...
Endlich spricht das mal jemand aus ... ;)
Wie man die IT umbauen solle, damit sollten sich laut Jennifer Beck alle Manager eines Unternehmens befassen und nicht bloß "Führungsteams, die zu viel Wein getrunken und gerade vier Tage...
Middle Management
Paul Murphy again … this time about Sun´s middle managment. I won´t comment on this story, but there is certainly some truth inside. The tort effect really exists. There are...
ZFS for Mainframes
Okay, the headline is a little bit lurid, but Luminex shows a solution, that leverages Sun Server, Solaris and ZFSin the most unlikely environment: Mainframes … Luminex announced a FICON-attachable...
links for 2007-04-24
Elektronkind » More Linux/Solaris FUD wars (tags: Solaris Linux FUD advocacy) The Powerbook Prank: He wanted a Powerbook. We gave him a P-P-P-Powerbook! How to f... a scammer ... (tags:...
ZFS benchmarks
Interesting comment to ZFS performance at ZFS and caching for performance: Watching iostat again also showed that during the read tests, I was using far less of the SAN bandwidth....
Breachable virtual machines?
The regular reader of my blog may have detected that i´m not really a fan of virtualisation in the Unix sphere. Server virtualisation is selled by it´s proponents as the...
Twitter ???
Kann mir mal jemand kurz erklären, warum so viele Leute Twitter so toll finden? Totale Entbloessung ? Ich dachte, die Entblätterung findet schon im Blog statt. Also wenn mir mal...
Low power AMB from IDT
As both Rock and Niagara 2 use FB-DIMMS this are really good news: FB-DIMMs have an addtional circuit called Advanced Memory Buffer. The higher consumption of FB-DIMMS can be credited...
Red Shift customers
Interesting comment about the future of Sun at Seeking Alpha: The New Dotcom Bang: Will Sun Microsystems Shine Again?. In my opinion Sun will be in an excellent position, when...
Steckdosen in MUC, Teil II
Ich hatte ja etwas längere Wartezeit in MUC bis zu meinem Kundentermin … man schafft es tatsächlich eine komplette CheckIn-Halle zu bauen, ohne auch nur eine öffentliche Steckdose …. schändlich...
links for 2007-04-23
lostplaces.de - Kulturgutschutz und Bergungsorte in Deutschland Ost & West The ultimate backup ;) (tags: Geschichte)
Alkoholproblem
Wie weitgreifend mittlerweile das Alkoholproblem in unserer Gesellschaft ist, merkt man dann wenn man um 9 an der Tankstellenkasse steht und von 5 vor mir in der Schlange stehenden Personen...
links for 2007-04-22
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