Entries tagged with 'Storage'

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2010 - 26 Jan 2010:

Internal Memo: Sun CEO Jon Schwartz to Staff - I didn't noticed this (I got the original), but these guys did: a little hidden message in Jon's memo. Note how it doesn't apply to the whole memo. Seems consistent with his efforts as a [...]

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009:

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway.
Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ - … and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance [...]

Links of interest for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009:

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment - This is a brilliant display of some of the cool things you can do in HTML5 (Requires a browser that supports HTML5 like Firefox 3.5)
How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’ - Oooops. Just as well I [...]

The Sun Storage 7000 simulator has just been updated to reflect the changes introduced in the 2009.Q2.0.0 release of the “firmware” and at the same time a Virtualbox image of the simulator has been released (get it here)
I’ve been waiting for this for a while as I don’t have VMWare and didn’t really want to [...]

Links of interest for 15 Mar 2009 - 24 Mar 2009:

Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center - Oooo, and it#039;s in a Sun Modular Datacentre (aka Project Blackbox) running Solaris 10 and ZFS.
The ‘IBM buys Sun’ story | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com - Interesting point of view on what#039;s happening with these [...]

Links of interest for 13 Feb 2009 - 10 Mar 2009:

Speeding to a Halt - Wow!!! OpenSolaris shutdown taken from about 41 seconds to a mere 7. Brilliant work here by Dan Price.
Anatomy of Storage on the GRID - First Joyent, now MediaTemple. It’s great to see large, popular ISPs moving across to OpenSolaris [...]

Links of interest for 29 Jan 2009 - 12 Feb 2009:

Stop developing for Internet Explorer 6 - I couldn#039;t agree more. I stopped checking all of my site in IE 6 years ago. I#039;m not a web developer by profession so I don#039;t need to keep everyone happy. If you#039;re running [...]

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2009 - 29 Jan 2009:

iWeb acquires the Sun Storage 7410 for its storage area network - It#039;s nice to see companies starting to promote the fact they#039;ve switched from a proprietary storage system to the Sun Storage 7000 range.
Understanding ZFS: Disk Space Discrepancies - I#039;ve seen this discrepency before, [...]

If you’re ever had concerns about the effect of noise on your disk performance, let Brendan Gregg put your mind at rest. Thanks to the brilliant Analytics (aka Dtrace with a brilliant web interface) on the a Sun Storage 7410 we can clearly see noise does have an effect, and in this extreme case [...]

Links of interest for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008:

Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom - Oooo. When this becomes a reality without any hoop jumping, I may just have to get myself a small Atom based netbook.
It’s recession time and Sun has the best recession kool aid. - Who needs Oracle and BEA when [...]