Sillenstede - revisited ....
Manche Menschen verbeissen sich so sehr in eine Angelegeheit, das sie irgendwann nicht mehr merken, das Sie eigentlich nur noch auf einem Besenstiel rumkauen, den man Ihnen hinhält. Ich denke,...
links for 2009-03-21
tecosystems » IBM Plus Sun Equals What? (tags: sun IBM subm)
One nice side effect of the Sun/IBM rumour
There is a nice thing about the Sun/IBM rumour: While there is a lot of bullshit in the media coverage of the market rumour (“IBM will buy Sun for 600...
The CeBIT magic
I promised to publish a walk through to my ZFS demonstration at the CeBit 2009 booth … it´s the stuff Ingo Frobenius called magic. Well, it isn´t really magic, but...
11 days until California
11 days until California. I´m really glad that the vacation comes nearer and nearer. At least 4 days San Francisco … Monterey and Yosemite are on my list, too. I...
One trillion dollars
Since the financial crisis began, we´ve got more and more accustomed to large number. One million is bird seed today. On billion … well …. politicians give them away as...
New NEM for the Blade 6000 series
You can have several reasons for a certain feature or design choice in your system: There are enough customer that want it otherwise. Initially there weren´t any options for the...
Das lokale Dorf im globalen Dorf
Mal etwas anderes als die grossen Dinge die da draussen passieren … wie beispielsweise Gerüchte über Firmenkäufe. Es geht hier im ein klassischen Fall von: Lokales Dorf findet sich im...
links for 2009-03-19
The IBM buys Sun Story | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com (tags: sun IBM)
No further comment
I won´t write a thing about all this IBM/Sun rumours. My personal opinion: Totally bunk rumour but i can´t write against all this bullshit in the media. I can´t really...
Strange things happen and hell freezes over.
It needs a takeover rumour about Sun and IBM to read some pro Sun comments. The article “IBM opens talks to buy Sun Microsystems” is full of positive comments about...
Again: IBM-Sun merger rumours
Every now and then there are merger rumours: Some company is said as a likely candidate for buying Sun. Mostly it´s IBM and indeed … the WSJ writes “IBM in...
2. Meeting der HHOSUG
Ich weiss … ein wenig spät … aber ich hatte ja den Tag schon vor eine Weile angekündigt. Am 31.3.2009 um 19:00 Uhr findet in der Hamburger Geschäftsstelle von Sun...
Das eigentliche Problem.
Ich bin einer jener Menschen die ihren Wehrdienst abgeleistet haben, sogar noch etwas laenger da waren. Und auch wenn ich nur Computer und Netzwerke dort administriert habe, musste ich mich...
New multiplicators for Oracle
Oracle changed their core multiplicators for software licensing. You can find the new version of their Oracle Processor Core Factor Table at the usual location. They didn´t changed the multiplicators...
Storagemojo about Fishworks
Robin Harris of Storagemojo got an introduction to Fishworks by Adam Leventhal and wrote a nice article about it including a video of the introduction.Especially interesting is his conclusion: Real...
Cisco blades - or: I´m not really impressed
The big Cisco announced they entry to the server market. I expected something big. Well … i´m not impressed. The informations are a little bit sparse at the moment, but...
Compression on the 7000
ZFS has transparent compression from the beginning, thus the Sun Storage 7000 has it as well. Dave Pacheco gives some insight into the performance characteristics of zfs compression in the...
links for 2009-03-15
TOGAF 9: A Sunny Day in San Diego | CTO Blog | Capgemini | Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing (tags: togaf) Response to the Capgemini CTO Blog article on the release of...
About Ciscos blades
Some people think, that Ciscos move to develop blade server is Ciscos next step to take a large dent out of the server market in addition to it´s networking share....