General

Just for the record, I will accept no payments to promote any product, service, or web site in my blog. If I do receive a product for free or on loan I’ll make that clear.

Hi there, and thanks for checking out my blog. I’m Peter Galvin (also known as Peter Baer Galvin because there is another Peter Galvin that writes in technology).

I’m Chief Technologist of Corporate Technologies for my day job, where we sell data center products and provide consulting services around them. Our selection of data center products includes Sun (and StorageTek), Network Appliance, Juniper, Veritas, F5, 3Par, and a variety of other products. Most of my time is spent on all things Sun so I’ll be blogging most about that.

My personal web site talks about some of my other activities. In short I’m co-author of the series of Operating System Concepts textbooks, write a periodic / occasional column as a contributing editor at SysAdmin Magazine, and teach tutorials about Solaris, usual at the USENIX conferences.

I also love music, love gadgets, and oddly enough, collect fountain pens. I’m sure I’ll blog about those things over time. I will definitely blog about the fact that I recently moved from Windows to Mac.

“Hello World.“

Hello World is the traditional first communication with the outside world from a new programmer. I’m stretching its use a bit but it felt appropriate for my first blog entry. It’s about time that I embraced this ”new“ medium!