Updated Sun Storage 7410
The Sun Storage 7410 got a little update. You can get it with up to four six-core CPUs, thus up to 24 cores in total.
Bloated
I know … it’s an article versus Linux. But it’s a comment from Linus himself, that led to this article. A long time ago, i wrote in this blog that...
links for 2009-09-22
EUROPA - Press Releases - Antitrust: Commission publishes decision concerning Intel's abuse of dominant position (tags: Intel AMD) German Joys: The Church Nazis* A view from outside regarding one of...
More quotes from the Churchill Club event with Ellison
There are more interesting quotes from the Churchill Club event. Bloomberg writes in “Oracle’s Ellison Concerned by Delay in Sun Takeover (Update1)”: Oracle and MySQL don’t compete and the company...
A little scratch in your lens?
Do you clean your lenses every day? You take extreme care for the front elements of the lens? Forget it … it seems, that the impact of doing so isn’t...
100 Million per month
This must be something like their inner October Revolution Parade or 4th of July fireworks for our beloved competitor. Their FUD seems to be effective. Reuters writes in “Sun Micro...
Einladung zum 6. und 7. HHOSUG-Meeting
Nach dem HHOSUG-Meeting ist vor dem HHOSUG-Meeting. In diesem Fall sogar vor den nächsten zwei Meetings. Ich habe heute die Einladung für das sechste und das siebte Meeting bei Xing...
links for 2009-09-21
Hauptseite − KWK - Infozentrum (tags: kwk) SCHOLZ .. jens scholz .. .. .. ihr menschen seid komisch .. (tags: culture blogs nerds)
Das 5. HHOSUG Meeting
Am letzten Donnerstag hat nunmehr bereits das fünfte Meeting der HHOSUG stattgefunden. 20 Leute waren da. Wirklich interessante Themen. Beim Vortrag von Ralf Ertzinger zum Thema Unicode habe auch das...
"Secure by design"-Vortrag im Rahmen der Sun Webseminare
Am 30.09. findet mein nächster Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe von deutschsprachigen Web Seminaren statt. Diesmal geht es um Solaris Security (sorry, der Titel oben is vom Marketing, ich hätte...
The new TPC-H benchmark from IBM
As my colleague Ingo said a while ago: “It doesn’t matter how fast you stir your meal while cooking when you wait for your sweetheart to search the wine. You...
Are you a bluepill or a redpill?
Disclaimer: As some readers didn’t get it … this article is a joke. <joke>One of my readers pointed his finger to a really nice analogy: Are you a redpill or...
Aura
The Exadata V2 announcement contained a hint to a new product: The Aura card. The official name of this card is Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card. Finally this product...
links for 2009-09-19
YouTube - Und alle so YEAH - Flashmob Hamburg 18.09.09 - Angela Merkel Flashmob zum Angela nerven ;) Synchronous write bias property (tags: zfs logbias)
BlueToTheBone, Sun, SGI and the SPECjbb2005 benchmark
There is a nice example for my point, that BlueToTheBone tries to downplay everything coming Sun, even when doing so makes a complete fool out of him. Blinded by huge...
S-Bahn
Irgendwie ist das Fahren mit der S-Bahn wirklich erheiternd. Naja … erheiternd ist vielleicht das falsche Wort. Vielleicht passt es besser, das man das ganze nur mit einem erheblichen Grad...
links for 2009-09-18
YouTube - Volker Pispers - Berufsgruppen die diese Welt nicht braucht (tags: video fun youtube humor banking politik management unternehmensberater comedy kabarett) Storagebod's Blog: NetApp Reveal Cisco's Storage Incompetence (tags:...
How to buy an Exadata V2
Just an important hint to all people interested in the Exadata V2 system: This system is a Oracle product. If you want to buy one, you have to talk with...
New iSCSI in the S7000 series
Roch Bourbonnais published an article about the new iSCSI framework in the S7000 series. Earlier versions of the S7000 firmware used the userland iSCSI daemon that was used in Solaris...
5. HHOSUG Treffen
Das fünfte HHOSUG-Meeting findet heute Abend statt. Wie beim letzten Mal um 19 Uhr und wie immer in der Sun Geschäftsstelle am Nagelsweg. Themen heute: Einleitung (Jörg Möllenkamp) Was gibt...