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- Flash vs Cash
- Flash vs CashGlobal Marketing CTO = oxymoron?Technical marketing? Is that taught in schools?Having Dtrace being able to scan through the entire stack from OS to storage is the game changer. EVERYONE is interested in system performance, and to do an accurate assessment you need good tools. These do NOT exist...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
- Storage Analytics meets Tufte
- The most powerfull thing about Sun's new line of storage appliances isn't its price, its capacity, or anything else involving the hardware - it's the general applicability of the command and control software that's really exciting to anyone who's ever had to guess how his data center was performing. by...
- Blog posts 2008-11-15
- Open Source, Dtrace, and tuning
- Open Source, Dtrace, and tuningComment.I knew a guy who only drove old Renaults. He did this, because he knew he could fix them. The cars had presented him many occaisions on which he was able to prove this.I, on the other hand, drive Audis, because I beleive I'll never have...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentalityBecause it is the Linux way Paul1) Take something good and copy it badly.2) Never, ever listen to anyone offering advice regarding usability [i]"Linux ain't no Fisher Price OS"[/i] etc.3) Spend more time arguing on the mailing lists, than actually developing and bug-testing.RE: DTrace and...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality
- Why isn't the Linux kernel group doing what the BSD people did with respect to DTrace: seeing a better idea and grabbing it with both hands? My guess is personal antipathies expressed as a big dose of not invented here syndrome. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Black Hat, Day 2: DTrace, (un)Smashing the Stack, Cisco IOS Forensics
- Black Hat, Day 2: DTrace, unSmashing the Stack, Cisco IOS ForensicsMAC / Vista / LINUX hackingI thought there was going to be some stuff up like last year with the hack attempt on the Mac?That's coming up in CanSecWESTnt
- Discussion threads 2008-02-23
- Black Hat, Day 2: DTrace, (un)Smashing the Stack, Cisco IOS Forensics
- Day 2 is done and Black Hat is wrapped up. The second day of talks was power-packed with some really great presentations. Despite a wicked night of celebration after my successful talk, I still managed to turn up on time for the "DTRACE: The Reverse Engineer's...
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Is DTrace Sun's killer application?
- Wednesday evening Im at Le Colonial in San Franciscos Tenderloin District having a spirited discussion with one of Suns young Turks, a bright software engineer called Bryan Cantrill. Were talking about a technology he and his team have developed called DTrace. Quite simply it is a way to spot performance...
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- The importance of Solaris 10
- Almost two years ago, in November of 2004, I did a piece for Linuxinsider with this same title: the importance of Solaris 10. Last week Sun formally issued the latest point release, now including ZFS and PostgresSQL. So how do my opinions then, stand up now? Heres...
- Blog posts 2006-10-06
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- Thinking about ROCK
- A technology is only as good as what you can achieve with it - and in thinking about some unique Sun technologies - CMT, HTM, Dtrace, and the CMT package management hardware - it occurs to me that that these can be combined to beat some very serious infrastructure security...
- Blog posts 2009-07-25
- Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris
- Quick thoughts on the possible demise of OpenSolarisWhere's the news?All I see here is a blog post from someone who says that people working on OpenSolaris are worried about the future. What else is new?Above and beyond that, the post is pure speculation. He's afraid OpenSolaris is going to "die...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time
- OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The TimeWatch Out Microsoft: Coming at ya from all sides!Nobody can tell me otherwise, OpenSolaris is a thing of beauty--ZFS, ZFS Slider, Dtrace, Containers, GNOME Nimbus interface, xVM Hypervisor LDOMS, and new CrossBar Network Virtualization.There's some serious $hit going on here I wish were in...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-07
- Are any open source projects too big to lose
- Are any open source projects too big to loseAn enemy of an enemy...It seems clear that these "crown jewels" are continuing sources of vexation to MS. So why would MS arch-enemy Oracle do anything to reduce this effect?On the other hand, might MS counter-move by buying some open source...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Sun sells soul for 10 cents more
- Sun sells soul for 10 cents moreThis is a best fit and should have happened long time ago...As explained by Dana Blankhorn in http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4014 (Why is Oracle picking up the Sun mess?), the following single reason is alone good enough to justify this acquisition"This is a defensive move. To quote...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- The 'IBM buys Sun' story
- Since sometime last summer a company called Southeastern Asset Management has been both accumulating Sun shares and hawking them to various big players. They got nowhere with HP, nowhere with Microsoft, nowhere with the Koreans, and nowhere with IBM - but recent political change has changed that: bringing IBM back...
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- The deed is done: now are you better off?
- Scenario 1: Congratulations! The virtual "you" has done the deed: the last HP RP8440 - always a relative piece of junk because designed for Itanium and sold with the incompatible PA-8900 - is gone, and a couple of nice shiny new Proliants have taken its place....
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- The deed is done: now are you better off?
- Scenario 1: Congratulations! The virtual "you" has done the deed: the last HP RP8440 - always a relative piece of junk because designed for Itanium and sold with the incompatible PA-8900 - is gone, and a couple of nice shiny new Proliants have taken its place....
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Crossbow's golden arrows
- Crossbow's golden arrowsOk so all this network stuff is really cool.....but like Sun's CPU stratergy it seems as if it is competing with itself. Will this tempt away Linux customers. Ummm.. NO! Will it cause Cisco to loose market share. Umm.. NO!Perhaps it will make existing Solaris users stick with...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- Sizing, configuration, and the Unix reseller hurdle
- Sizing, configuration, and the Unix reseller hurdleIncompetent is as incompentent doesI saw an interesting job ad: http://detroit.craigslist.org/tch/982155526.htmlI contacted the guy to find out how someone with 3 years of experience could possibly be able to consult on infrastructure. Not to mention the whopping 55k salary (with 50% travel). No wonder...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-14
- Storage choices
- Storage choicesWhat about the lords of storage?You know, the guys whose entire life is dedicated to carving out disk space? How do these highly paid specialists maintain simple JBODS or 74xx devices? Where are the switches? Where is the fiber? You mean they might have to log into a *gasp*...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
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