The February 2009 ;login: magazine includes my latest column. This time it’s all about the Sun 7000 Analytics component. The Sun 7000 is a new NAS storage device from Sun. It was implemented as a skunk works project by the “Fishworks” team – a team that includes some of the best and brightest Sun engineers. It is a true appliance with a few break-through features, including the use of DTrace technologies within a great GUI. Using this tool, the storage administrator can see unprecedented amounts of performance information about the NAS appliance. ;login: makes some columns publicly available, but other available only to members. While I strongly encourage membership in the USENIX association, I also like to make my writings more widely available. The column can be read for free in .pdf format here: 2009-02-galvin.
January, 2009:
Moved my Blog
Just a quick note that I moved my blog from pbgalvin.wordpress.com to www.galvin.info (at Dreamhost). Nothing major should have changed but there should be new features. Unfortunately I think moving the site broke any RSS subscriptions, so you’ll need to resubscribe here if interested: www.galvin.info RSS
Postponed – Sixth NEOSUG Meeting
Just a quick note that we’re postponing the 6th NEOSUG meeting due to inclement weather and low registrations. For more details see the NEOSUG forum at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=88485&tstart=0
Column – The Death of Solaris
My latest column has been published in ;login:. I have attached it for your convenience. Dec 2008 ;login: column.