Today my inner idealist took a heavy blow. It’s not dead, but it sustained a nasty headwound and will require days of bedrest and plenty of antibiotics to recover. I’m involved in a dirty big data migration effort at the moment; dirty being the operative word. Data migrations are never,… Read More
Firstly, some disclosure: I do a lot of work with NetApp kit, and have a close working relationship with them. In the past, I’ve had a close working relationship with Sun Professional Services. SunOS was the first Unix I learned on. I even owned some Sun stock once. Sun have… Read More
Back in April of 2006, Unicity (my company) took Bill Moore to lunch to chat about ZFS and a storage system idea Sun was working on. We’d met Bryan Cantrill at a presentation he gave on dtrace, which was the new hotness at the time. We were impressed, and stayed… Read More
So you’ve just signed another check for a couple of million dollars of storage hardware. Just what is everyone keeping on there? If you’re anything like me, you’ve got a PC chock full of old email, digital photos, your mp3 collection, a bunch of old shell scripts, stock photos for… Read More
