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Work Stuff

Review: SuperMicro’s SC847 (SC847A) 4U chassis with 36 drive bays

May 7, 2010
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[Or "my quest for the ultimate home-brew storage array."] At my day job, we use a variety of storage solutions based on the type of data we’re hosting. Over the last year, we have started to deploy SuperMicro-based hardware with OpenSolaris and ZFS for storage of some classes of data. The systems we have built [...]

Tagged as: Deduplication, Hardware, Nexenta, Open-source, OpenSolaris, Storage, SuperMicro, ZFS

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Sun’s Unified Storage 7210 – designed to disappoint?

February 23, 2010
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At my day job, we purchased 3 Sun (er, Oracle) 7210’s (part of their ‘Unified Storage’ platform; the machines are X4540’s with their specialized Unified Storage OS) on the recommendation of one of our vendors. The models we purchased contained 48 250gb disks and 32gb memory — no SSD’s. Our intent was to use these [...]

Tagged as: Customer Service, Oracle, Storage, Sun Microsystems, ZFS

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regarding sales pitches..

March 6, 2009

To the sales person trying to sell me, well, anything:
I am a tough sell. I will ask hard questions. I will not take anything you tell me at face value, you will have to prove it to me. If I think your product sucks, I will tell you that, and tell you why. If I [...]

Tagged as: Work

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new site launched – slantly.com

December 15, 2007

Well, the project that I’ve been working (with a large team) on for the last two months or so at work has finally gone into public beta – check it out at slantly.com.
Basically, slantly is a site where you can post an opinion, and other people can either agree or disagree with it, and provide [...]

Tagged as: Slantly, Work

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changing with the times..

November 7, 2007

As many of you know, I’ve recently moved positions at work, and am now the primary systems administrator for an extremely smart group of people who are working on rolling out some new products.
Nifty technologies we’ve been working with:

Hadoop
Ruby on Rails
Amazon EC2

Other cool technologies we’ve looked at, but are not using quite yet:

AppLogic

If you are [...]

Tagged as: Amazon, Work

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