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Getting into the deals
One of my favourite bloggers Jonathan Schwartz mentions in a recent Eweek interview that he is worried about getting into deals.
Well, I can think of one class of deals which Jonathan can easily win but isn’t getting into today. These are the Linux/FreeBSD NAS boxes which use 3ware IDE Raid controllers. Just do a google search or search Redhat/Suse’s bugzilla to see the pain people face monkeying with NFS and the linux filesystem of the week.
With ZFS and Sun’s robust NFS stack (Check out which company has a lot of slots in the upcoming Connectathon), Solaris can pretty much own the market in the low-cost NAS box. Track a few mailing lists and sales staff can cold-call the appropiate sysadmin who has pretty much detailed his pain points when trying to setup a robust NFS server. Maybe there are cross-sell opportunities for StorageTek products.
Jonathan, all this needs is the driver team in Beijing and/or your IHV/ISV engagement teams to get cracking with 3ware at the earliest.
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test blog via performancing
I have been using either MarsEdit or WordPress web-based editor for publishing to this blog. Trying out Performancing now. Seems easy to use
iLife'06 is the underestimated star of MWSF
There have been lots of blog posts about the new Intel Core Duo based iMac and MacBook Pro released at Macworld San Francisco yesterday. Personally I think that iLife ’06 is a very significant upgrade and people might be underestimating how many users will finally get to effectively use their digital cameras, digital video cameras. I’ve ordered my copy and look forward to playing with it
iLife’06 is the underestimated star of MWSF
There have been lots of blog posts about the new Intel Core Duo based iMac and MacBook Pro released at Macworld San Francisco yesterday. Personally I think that iLife ’06 is a very significant upgrade and people might be underestimating how many users will finally get to effectively use their digital cameras, digital video cameras. I’ve ordered my copy and look forward to playing with it
Some thoughts about ZFS
Been reading a lot of blogs about ZFS . It’s mind blowing. Take a look at the screencasts done by Dan Price .
Sun currently uses the tag line “ZFS: The last word in filesystems”. From what I read and saw, I immediately felt that sysadmins who start their career with zfs will never understand the pain felt by people who’ve gone through volume management, fsck, moving filesystems around. A lot of sysadmins have missed crucial moments with their loved ones because they were fighting fires. ZFS makes that a bad dream
I feel Sun Marketing should market ZFS as
“ZFS: Because your family deserves it”
Congratulations to team ZFS and particularly to Jeff Bonwick who had the vision and courage to “think different”
A shout out to our friends at Sun Beijing, there are a truckload of installations running Linux/BSD boxes using 3ware. Get a 3ware/Areca/Qstor driver in Solaris 10 at the earliest and Solaris/ZFS becomes the NAS OS of choice.
I cut my teeth with SunOS/Solaris. With the recent release of Studio 11, it’s going to be very compelling. I hope the Solaris hackers can put some love into the installer and provide some update tools like yum,apt-get.
utorrent kicks up a storm
utorrent a Windows bittorrent client has been getting rave reviews amongst its early adopters. It’s only 94KB in size and its typical memory usage is around 4MB
With the upcoming release of Firefox 1.5, I think the Mozilla crew should start publicising this bittorrent client so that more people use Bittorrent as a mechanism to help spread Firefox
Skype to use On2 vide codecs in it's upcoming beta
According to this news report at Internet News, Skype supposedly has licensed video codecs from On2 technologies whose previous codec VP3 is the basis for the open source Theora codec.
Public beta is thought to be scheduled for end-of-August. Will be very interesting to see how video conferencing takes off with this.
Skype to use On2 vide codecs in it’s upcoming beta
According to this news report at Internet News, Skype supposedly has licensed video codecs from On2 technologies whose previous codec VP3 is the basis for the open source Theora codec.
Public beta is thought to be scheduled for end-of-August. Will be very interesting to see how video conferencing takes off with this.
Pair networks plonks good money to FreeBSD tcp stack faster
Pair Networks which is a very fine webhost and is well known as a FreeBSD shop contributed US$ 14,000 to support Andre Opperman for his TCP/IP optimization work.
Pair had previously donated a sizable amoount for Poul Henning Kamp’s work on buffer cache cleanup and optmisation and now are doing the same for the tcp/ip stack.
I really think this is a very fine gesture.
End of an era: Terry Shannon passes away
Terry Shannon of Shannon Knows HPC passed away a few days ago. I have been following his site for some time albeit not regularly. I used to read it when it was called Shannon knows DEC, didn’t follow it much when it was called Shannon know Compaq.
Terry was a big fan of Firefox from the early days and he took the time to join the SpreadFirefox community. He sported a Firefox button on his page
One of his blog post on the spreadfirefoxsite encourages people to think of 100 million download goal.
He also sent a newsletter to over 150K Hewlett Packard employees where he extolled the virtues of Firefox. In spite of his seniority in the trade press, he took the time and sent me a copy of the PDF he sent to HP employees
Yusuf Goolamabbas 