Oracle and Sun - or: Do you need more commitment?
Yesterday i’ve got a pdf of this ad, a few minutes ago Glynn Foster hinted to an article on digg. Would the people spreading all this “Sun will set” -FUD...
L2ARC in Hardware
It was obvious, that someone would take the idea of the L2ARC - an additional read cache on a SSD - and implement in hardware: Adaptec announced a RAID controller...
Coffee4Local - or: 1751 Subscribers
Yet another coffee for Local: By the way … i didn’t stop blogging … i just writing a really long follow-on article to the the DIY-Thumper article at the moment....
links for 2009-09-09
Datei:Wappen-Altona.svg – Wikipedia Index of /ora-smf/ORA_SMF_1_5_1 (tags: oracle smf manifest)
links for 2009-09-08
brand eins Online: "Eine Entdeckung" - brand eins 09/2009 - WAS UNTERNEHMERN NÃœTZT (tags: twitter microblogging brandeins) Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. (tags: science...
Nice usecase for ZFS
The Apache Foundation had a security breach a few days ago (no, not on the Solaris 10 system ;) ), that led to the compromitation of their services. A nice...
links for 2009-09-07
Bug ID: 6820054 Turbocharged SVr4 package commands [PSARC 2009/173] (tags: PSARC solaris) EU to examine Sun-Oracle merger; limbo continues | JavaWorld's Daily Brew (tags: oracle sun rumours)
Latency matters
Latency matters. Even in small quantities and thinking about storage networking just in IOPS without thinking about latency is like thinking of disks just in size but not in IOPS....
links for 2009-09-04
YouTube - Lindforest - What Else Is There (Röyksopp cover) (LIVE) (tags: music royksopp)
Some perspective to this DIY storage server mentioned at Storagemojo
I’ve received yesterday some mails/tweets with hints to a “Thumper for poor” DIY chassis. Those mails asked me for an opinion towards this piece of hardware and if it’s a...
links for 2009-09-03
YouTube - (HQ) Röyksopp live at Senkveld. "The Girl and the Robot " featuring Robyn. (tags: royksopp robot)
Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array
Sun talked about a flash array at the ISC in Hamburg. Now it got obvious, that something is imminent in regard of this system, as soon as patch 141484-01 was...
Interesting device
Sometimes you stumble over interesting upcoming products already documented in docs.sun.com: Click on Storage, then at the “Browse Product Documentation” at Hardware (if it’s not already opened), then click on...
It started with an URL - or: The source of rumours
I got aware of a new rumour in regard of Oracle and Sun: This rumour is based on a CNN article, which speculated that Oracle will sell of the hardware...
Weihnachtssaison 2009 offiziell eröffnet
Wir haben noch August, wenn auch nur noch knapp. Doch schon heute konnten im Netto-Supermarkt in Barßel die Vorboten der Adventszeit aufgefunden werden: Gewürzspekulatius. Jenes Gebäck, das man in der...
Storagemojo about the missing ZFS in Snow Leopard
I really like Robin Harris’ Storage Mojo blog, but in this case, but i’m thinking in his article Why did Apple drop ZFS he is wrong, when he thinks that...
links for 2009-08-29
YouTube - First Train Home - Official Video (tags: imogen heap)
Diskless Boot
While commenting to a tweet of @alecmuffet a question arised in my head: Why do many people talk about SAN boot and why do people seldomly ask for NFS boot?...
links for 2009-08-28
FrOSCon 2009 Review + Bilder - Alexander Stelter - foo, bar, baz (tags: Froscon)
Solaris vs. Linux - the quiz
You will find a quiz on the english version of the Systemheros to find out something important about yourself, the name of our prefered OS or at least the one,...