UK Oracle User Group: annual survey & magazine submissions
As a previous member of the UK Oracle User Group before the Sun acquisition, I know the value, information and networking opportunities that it provides. I have no doubt that it will increase with the London OpenSolaris group becoming part of UKOUG. The UKOUG have launched their annual membership survey. This survey gathers members feedback that [...]
last Sun entry
This is my last Sun post, as the Sun Oracle integration takes another step forward tomorrow with the Legal Entity Combination of the UK entities. In the coming weeks there’s new systems to learn and integrate with as well as finding out what the longer term goals are and how I fit in. This road [...]
SSD experiment
After some of my recent blogs on SSDs, I was excited to have in my hand an OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD. However I neglected to remember that in my other hand I needed to have both SATA data and SATA power cables. After a trip to the local store, I come back with the required [...]
open source software and survival of the fittest
There has been lots of recent discussions about open source and how that either helps or hinders proprietary software, depending on your point of view. Open Source Software (OSS) is starting to gain more momentum: Firefox has almost 25% market share in December, 440 million downloads of Firefox 3.5 OpenOffice has over 100 million downloads [...]
SSDs to the forefront
Following up my recent posts concerning SSD and flash based disks, there seems to be a growing understanding of the power of SSDs and also some confusion over the pricing and whether some are faster than others. I’ve compiled a summary of some other posts and info: Are some SSDs faster/better than others? YES, it [...]
KDE on OpenSolaris
Ever get tired of the same old gnome desktop on OpenSolaris? Try the latest KDE version easily, quickly and simply: add the required repository: pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://solaris.bionicmutton.org:10001/ bionicmutton *** See Note1 below refresh the repository: pfexec pkg refresh bionicmutton add the required packages: pfexec pkg install KDEbase-apps KDEgdm-integration *** See Note 3 below [...]
OpenSolaris Dedup details
So ZFS dedup made it into build 128, which is now available from the /dev repository and will therefore be in the 2010.03 release of OpenSolaris. So how to setup and test, it’s very easy from a terminal window. I’ve got compression set on the pools, so lets get some baseline numbers: (see Thierry’s PartnerTech [...]
Firefox 3.6 changes the java plugin
Firefox 3.6 is just around the corner, due to be delivered later this year. In testing I found out that the old java plugin version (libjavaplugin_oji.so) on opensolaris was no longer recognised and hence java apps didn’t work So what’s the deal? Since Java 6 update 10, there is a new implementation of the java [...]
more innovation – ZFS Deduplication
When asked about Sun Microsystems, one word will always spring to the top of my mind: innovation There is such a fantastic DNA in this company that looks to push boundaries and make things better – ok, we often do not got the message across well but the effort and dedication shown by employees always [...]
ZFS:Hybrid Storage Pools
There has been a few announcements recently (and more to come) and here’s one that can really be a game changer and enabler for future tech advances: Hybrid Storage Pools (HSP) are a new innovation designed to provide superior storage through the integration of flash with disk and DRAM. Sun and Intel have teamed up to [...]
