It´s a thing i will try out in the next few days. Can i use ZFS, iSCSI and Thumper to improve the already excellent SamFS HSM filesystem? Can i solve the problem of migration in storage media life cycle managment en passant?
I hate the big discussion forums at IT news sites. They are full of trolls. My favourite trollishness at the moment is the comment "The X4500 is fucking expensive. I can build one of my own for 10 grands". Okay, let´s talk about this statement.
"None of these products are commodity offerings, they're top-of-class offerings. Sun is ahead of the curve," Jonathan Eunice, analyst with Illuminata, told internetnews.com.
The blade system is absolutely different from what HP and IBM are doing; this is a full bore data center play without any compromise.
"Each one of them has flash," Eunice said. "In each one of the segments they targeted, they did something that is either unique or head-of-class to make it clear they're not just doing a me-too, yeah, yeah."
On Jonathan´s weblog you find two interesting facts: An image of the Thumper beast and by the filename the name of the system was somehow announced by Jonathan: Sun Fire X4500 (the file is named X4500_lowres.1024x768.jpg)
Matt Bryant about The Sell Rating from Goldman Sucks Fri, 09.01.2009 01:24 Looks like The Reg have picked
up on this as well - they can
't hardly have a week without
a Sun share price story. [...]
Joerg+M. about It´s slashing time ... Thu, 08.01.2009 19:29 I didn´t forget them ... as i
wrote about them earlier and i
wrote at the beginning "besid
es the Sun RIF" ...
Kevin Hutchinson about The Sell Rating from Goldman Sucks Thu, 08.01.2009 18:12 Well, from recent history, it
looks like banks were way over
leveraged compared to your ty
pical business, and seem [...]
Comments
Fri, 09.01.2009 01:24
Looks like The Reg have picked up on this as well - they can 't hardly have a week without a Sun share price story. [...]
Thu, 08.01.2009 19:29
I didn´t forget them ... as i wrote about them earlier and i wrote at the beginning "besid es the Sun RIF" ...
Thu, 08.01.2009 19:15
don't forget 6,000 for sun
Thu, 08.01.2009 18:12
Well, from recent history, it looks like banks were way over leveraged compared to your ty pical business, and seem [...]
Thu, 08.01.2009 17:36
I actually think it's a good t ime to add some sun shares to the mix