Having to miss last years edition I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this years CiscoLive! conference in my hometown Melbourne again. Venue was excellent as usual. MCEC provides perfect facilities and is in the heart of the city so no dramas here. The opening keynote already showed to direction where Cisco has […]
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It is no secret that many vendors use open source software in their products and solutions. One of the most ubiquitous is Linux which is often the base of many of these products and used as core-OS because of it\’s flexibility and freely available status without the need of keeping track of licenses (to some
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5 Years ago wrote this article: Server virtualisation is the result of software development incompetence Yes, it has given me some grief given the fact 99% of respondents did not read beyond the title and made false assumptions saying I accused these developers for being stupid. Tough luck. You should have read the entire article.
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A buddy of mine posted this article and it reminded me of the presentation I did for the Melbourne VMUG back in April of this year. The first law of the Time Lords | Aussie Storage Blog: If you have ever worked in support (or had the need to check on events in general as
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I\’m not hiding the fact I\’ve been a SUN MicroSystems fan all my life. They had great products, great engineering philosophy and best of all great people who knew how to pick a potato. The problem was that they went down the same path as DEC (huhhh, who…???) DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation. One of those
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I\’m not hiding the fact I\’ve been a SUN MicroSystems fan all my life. They had great products, great engineering philosophy and best of all great people who knew how to pick a potato. The problem was that they went down the same path as DEC (huhhh, who…???) DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation. One of those
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Storage vendors are getting nervous. The time has come that SMB/SME level storage systems can be build from scratch with just servers, JBOD\’s and some sort of connectivity. Most notably SUN (or Oracle these days) has been very busy in this area. Most IP was already within SUN, Solaris source code has been made available,
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