OpenSolaris? It's what we say it is, dammit!

My move to San Francisco and my beautiful new daughter haven't left me much time to blog (or breathe). I have to point out Stephen Lau's excellent post. So many of the people in the OpenSolaris community owe their livelihood to Sun that it's difficult to find opinions …

OSCON! ZFS!

Here are the slides.

Belatedly, OSCON was great. Meeting the Joyent crew and many of the people involved in OpenSolaris was a real pleasure. The unofficial highlight of the conference was the Sun sponsored OpenSolaris party. Held in the parking garage of the Doubletree …

Top 10 Most Favorite Tweets

People I frequently favorite (I don't care if you think favorite is a verb or not; I'll use it as I please) are either writers or should be writers. Funny, insightful, cynical, wise, silly -- all squeezed effortlessly into 140 characters. In alphabetical order by …

Blood of a SysAdmin {I}

Workflow management is one of the most important things for any systems administrator. Hours are long and unpredictable; the job is interrupt driven; you interface with almost every other group in the organization. Having a consistent system for task management is …

Evelyn Izzie

The birth of my first child put a bit of a crimp in the blogging. Weighing 8 pounds and 10 ounces (3.93kg), Izzie was born on June 25th at 9:28PM. She's wonderful and looks just like her old man sans goatee.

Storage, part deaux

"So, you know, we think that should work. Let us know if it does!"




We've heard that from every vendor we're evaluating right now. The smallest discrete "island" of storage that's being tested for our former Plan A is two clustered T2000s fronting three x4500s.




We …

"Sun, I love you...please don't beat me anymore!"

We're rolling out a large product at work. The most critical component of that product is storage. Rock-solid, high performance, 100% reliable storage in massive quantities. Petabytes of it.



We want ZFS. We want thumpers. We want T2000s. Actually, we wanted those …

RedMonk Clean Sweep

The chaps at RedMonk sweep the top 50 analyst blogger awards! Congratulations to Cote, James, and Steven!




Not that I claim to have actually looked at the methodology or anything like that, but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick...unless the RedMonks …