How's that for a long title? Just a note that the slides are now available from our ZFS in the cloud session at OpenWorld. Tom Shafron, CEO of Viewbiquity, and...
How's that for a long title? Just a note that the slides are now available from our ZFS in the cloud session at OpenWorld. Tom Shafron, CEO of Viewbiquity, and I presented on the new features in ZFS and how Viewbiquity is using them to provide a cloud-based data storage system. From our abstract: Oracle Solaris ZFS, a key feature of Oracle Solaris, integrates the concepts of a file system and volume management capabilities to deliver simple, fast data management. This...
How's that for a long title? Just a note that the slides are now available from our ZFS in the cloud session at OpenWorld. Tom Shafron, CEO of Viewbiquity, and I presented on the new features in ZFS...
Like so many other folks these last few days, I have migrated my personal blogging to my own site at Wrenacres.com. The direct url for the blog is...
Like so many other folks these last few days, I have migrated my personal blogging to my own site at Wrenacres.com. The direct url for the blog is http://wrenacres.com/blog. Visit me there to see keep up with what I have been doing. I also have my genealogical research posted at wrenacres. I will continue to update this blog with new and cool Solaris and OpenSolaris related topics. I have already moved all former content from this site to Wrenacres.
Like so many other folks these last few days, I have migrated my personal blogging to my own site at Wrenacres.com. The direct url for the blog is http://wrenacres.com/blog. Visit me there to see...
So, the EU has approved the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. This coming Monday makes 15 years that I have been at Sun. And this morning two movie scenes keep...
So, the EU has approved the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. This coming Monday makes 15 years that I have been at Sun. And this morning two movie scenes keep rolling around in my head.First is from 1776, the great old musical about how the US came to be. Right after the Continental Congress unanimously votes, after a long struggle, for independence from England, they all sit stunned that it has passed and John Adams, played by William Daniels just says, "It's done. It's...
So, the EU has approved the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. This coming Monday makes 15 years that I have been at Sun. And this morning two movie scenes keep rolling around in my head.First is from...
Nice review at Gizmodo, here, of VirtualBox. Title is Virtualize Any OS for Free. Check it out.
So, CEC is actually almost over. It's been a whirlwind of sessions, meet-ups with folks, filling my head with new stuff. And, of course in the midst of all of...
So, CEC is actually almost over. It's been a whirlwind of sessions, meet-ups with folks, filling my head with new stuff. And, of course in the midst of all of the CEC excitement, there's still the need to keep up with what customers back home need.So, what was exciting from days one and two? Lots!Jon Haslam and Simon Ritter gave a great talk and demo about using DTrace along with Java. I am absolutely not a developer; never even written "Hello World" in Java. But, this really...
So, CEC is actually almost over. It's been a whirlwind of sessions, meet-ups with folks, filling my head with new stuff. And, of course in the midst of all of the CEC excitement, there's still the...
So, it's the first day of CEC, Sun's Customer Engineering Conference. This year, there are about 4000 of us hanging out at Paris & Bally's hotels in Las Vegas....
So, it's the first day of CEC, Sun's Customer Engineering Conference. This year, there are about 4000 of us hanging out at Paris & Bally's hotels in Las Vegas. Systems Engineers, folks from Sun's various practices, Service & Support engineers, architects, folks from headquarters engineering are all here. But, we also have a huge number of our partners - resellers, OEMs, developers, etc.Last night was our Networking Reception. Great to see folks again that I had not seen in a...
So, it's the first day of CEC, Sun's Customer Engineering Conference. This year, there are about 4000 of us hanging out at Paris & Bally's hotels in Las Vegas. Systems Engineers, folks from Sun's...
Jason Calacanis has posted his "official" definition of Web 3.0. He says "Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by...
Jason Calacanis has posted his "official" definition of Web 3.0. He says "Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform."The same day I saw this, I also saw, on Keith Bostic's fabulous /dev/null mailing list, a link to Cracked.com's The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries. Even though all of these folks are clearly authorities in their field, are we really...
Jason Calacanis has posted his "official" definition of Web 3.0. He says "Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web...
I feel like that Johnny Cash song (which I think maybe Jimmy Rodgers did first - can't recall for sure). Seems like for the last several months, I've been on...
I feel like that Johnny Cash song (which I think maybe Jimmy Rodgers did first - can't recall for sure). Seems like for the last several months, I've been on the road doing Solaris bootcamps, best practices workshops, and all sorts of other things Solaris. I've seen a lot of interesting places and met lots of interesting folks. Just the last few weeks, I've been to:Bismarck, ND, Sioux Falls, SD, Fargo, ND for University Solaris Bootcamps. Got to see lots of that area...
I feel like that Johnny Cash song (which I think maybe Jimmy Rodgers did first - can't recall for sure). Seems like for the last several months, I've been on the road doing Solaris bootcamps, best...
I am amazed and awed by all of the folks on BSC who are able to contribute great content \*and\* get their jobs done! I find that even when I want to share...
I am amazed and awed by all of the folks on BSC who are able to contribute great content \*and\* get their jobs done! I find that even when I want to share something, there just don't seem to be enought hours in the day to get the job done, talk to & support the customers, and then to put something together that makes enough sense to share. How do you guys do it? Or do you never sleep?
I am amazed and awed by all of the folks on BSC who are able to contribute great content \*and\* get their jobs done! I find that even when I want to share something, there just don't seem to be...
