March 2010 archive

IBM XIV….

Oh Moshe – you disappoint me so…. When I was at EMC I used to look up at Moshe Yanai like he was a god.  The father of the Symmetrix, used to fly in and out of work in his own Helecopter on occasion, the uber-engineer that we all aspired to be. Oh how the …

Continue reading

What I run… (And why boot-from-san is a good thing.)

It amazes me how much power you can get in a desktop today. From the Quad-core “Extreme” desktop processors, to 64bit Operating Systems that are almost ready for prime-time, the options are limitless. I recently ‘came into’ some hardware and decided to build a server workstation around it. The ‘found’ hardware was 16G of Registered, …

Continue reading