links for 2009-02-04

ohnotheydidnt: Kermit Bale (tags: funny humor muppets movies fun photos pics christianbale kermit)

Some thoughts about deduplication

Deduplication is one of this big hype topics at the moment. Deduplication sounds good, but … well … hmmm … let´s say it this way: This technology has to mature....

No 747-8?

Hmm … is it just me or is Boeing testing the water with the statement, that they would stop the 747-8 program in the case they find out that this...

Sun Storage 7410 in evaluation at OpenSRS

Rick Yazwinski of OpenSRS/Tucows wrote an interesting piece about the Sun Storage 7410 - “Testing Sun’s Open Storage Platform” a while ago: We start with Bonnie++, a tried and true...

About SPECsfs, benchmarks and benchmarketing

Bryan Cantrill wrote an excellent article about the SPECsfs: Eulogy for a benchmark. This article describes the shortcomings of the SPECsfs and the consequences to benchmarketing configurations (like a 228...

Brute force in cryptography - literally

Most of the times brute-force algorithms are much more effective than even the most sophisticated crypto analysis: (found at xkcd.com)

What have L2ARC and a furniture shop in common ....

In the last week i´ve got some questions how the L2ARC works. I thought a moment about it and came up with the following description. The whole model of caching...

links for 2009-01-31

Virtual Geek: A Multivendor Post to help our mutual iSCSI customers using VMware (tags: iscsi reference storage vmware tips ESX san)

Peter Galvin about Storage Analytics

Peter Galvin publishes an column in the ;login: magazine - a publication of the USENIX and often an really insightful read. This time he wrote about the Storage Analytics part...

Successful maintainance of the EAL 4+ Evaluation for Solaris 10 05/08

The certification of an evaluation of an evaluation target is only valid for a certain security target in conjunction with a certain evaluation target. Thus when you update your evaluation...

Brendan Gregg about L2ARC in the Sun Storage 7000 series

Storage Analytics in the Sun Storage 7000 series is a great tool to monitor performance and to search for optimizations in your storage configuration (making your job easier). But this...

Sun Storage 7000 for Oracle

Jeffrey T. Wright and Sridhar Ranganathan wrote an excellent whitepaper about the Sun Storage 7000 series for Oracle. It´s really worth a read for everybody thinking about databases on NAS:...

links for 2009-01-30

VDI3 EA2 Dennis Maher about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3 - Early Access 2 (tags: virtualisation desktop) Open Source Drives The New Sun (tags: sun opensource OSS) 40 Gigabit Ethernet and...

Morgendliche Laune

Was soll man von einem Tag halten, den man mit einem Lied, das unter anderem diese Textzeilen enthält, in Dauerrotation beginnt: Es blendet uns zu sehen und schmerzt uns, Dir...

Frankfurt - train station of the airport

The Mysql deal in the hindsight

This article of Matt Assay is a nice answer to all this RedHat versus Sun talk of the recent time because of similar market capitalisation: Perhaps Sun Microsystems' valuation of...

Future datacenter fabric: QDR IB or 40/100GbE?

There are several people thinking that the search for future data center fabric technology is already decided for Ethernet. I don´t think so. I still think of Infiniband as a...

links for 2009-01-29

Boeing still doesn’t get it - Plane Talking (tags: boeing dreamliner)

Sun Storage 7000 for providers

The Canadian provider iWeb writes in his blog: iWeb just acquired the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System to fulfill its needs in large volume storage. To be specific, it...

Rock is alive

I tend to say it on a regular schedule in this blog, i say it to my colleagues and everybody who ask me: “Rock is alive and is doing well”....