Posts 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 CEO: He started off well and then couldn't be bothered to finish what he started. EUROPA - Press Releases - Mergers: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems - And the official press release. Oracle wins unconditional EU approval for Sun buy - It's... Continue reading ►

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 per release over the last 10 releases making a cumulative drop of 12%. How are the Linux advocates in the corporate world substantiating this drop in performance? Solaris customers certainly wouldn't accept it. Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer - `Ellison was adamant:... Continue reading ►

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 don't have an iPhone. Why does 1.6 beat 4.7? - BestPerf - People always forget the details, and it's often these details that competitors deliberately leave out too. Triple-Parity RAID-Z : Adam Leventhal's Weblog - ZFS has just got triple-parity RAID-Z support. Why? Alan... Continue reading ►

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 go that route considering Virtualbox is just as good, if not better (I have to say that ;-) ). Anyway, thanks to Virtualbox's new ability to support OVF and host-only networking (as of 2.2.2), a simulator image for Virtualbox is possible. I've not ... Continue reading ►

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 rumours. The last paragraph in this article could be the deal breaker though. Heat Map Analytics - Brendan Gregg and Bryan Cantril have far too much free time. The end of this article has a interesting bit about writing a program that generates... Continue reading ►

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 and ZFS to power their grid, hosting and storage offerings. HP Joins Solaris Community (Live Free or Die) - This is brilliant news, for Sun and all those HP customers running Solaris (and I know of some big banks on this list). Now I... Continue reading ►

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 old and backward software, that#039;s your problem, not mine. Saving Big Money With Open Source Storage - OpenSolaris and ZFS saving someone#039;s money and ass. Countdown (actually up) to the UNIX Epoch time being 1234567890! - It#039;s amazing how excited techies get about the simple things ;-) Sun... Continue reading ►

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, but haven#039;t had the time to research it. Thanks to Ben, I don#039;t have to. Definitely worth remember this one. IPMP Re-architecture is delivered - A great introduction to the re-architected IPMP including examples of the old and new configuration styles. Once OpenSolaris... Continue reading ►

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 (don't try this at home work), quite a large effect: Now that is cool. Lets see NetApp or EMC show us that kind of real time proof. Brendan has a full report and some screenshots of the Analytics output here.

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 you can have MySQL and Glassfish, and you can even use Ruby on Rails. I agree with the final comment in the article - Sun just isn#039;t selling the whole idea very well. I hope someone sees this post and takes it#039;s content... Continue reading ►