JK Galbraith, one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, died today. The Guardian covers this in a formal obituary and an article containing these three, together with more, quotes. …
About ITV
I have been catching up on my reading over the last few days and was browsing the March copy of Management Today, in which Chris Allen, the CEO of ITV was interviewed. In the interview he boasted that ITV2 is now the most watched digital channel in the UK, eclipsing Sky One. Its an illustration that something other than channel is important. …
A trip to Seville
We got back from Seville on Thursday. What a marvellous place. I haven’t been to Spain for over 30 years and never been to Andalusia. One of our inspirations to do the journey was the Cafe Mauresque in Canterbury. While there we visited the Alcazar, the Cathedral & the Giralda, the highest point in the city and some of the best views. …
More on Dell’s takeover of Alienware
It seems that last Thursday, Dell & Alienware agreed for Dell to take over Alienware. Interestingly (well, to me), I have just upgraded my household IT and have bought an Alienware Aurora for the games and a Dell for our household IT. (Am I a futurologist??) …
SunLIVE 2006
I attended a Sun customer jamboree, called Sun LIVE 2006 and posted some blogs articles on my old sun/ora cle blog on innovation in government and the nascent mobile games industry, which I added to here. …
The architecture of the N1 provisioning server
During a presentations on N1, Garima Thockburn & Doan Nguyen showed an architectural functional model for the applications provisioning technology. What’s really cool is that, as I’d expect from Sun, although we often forget what it made us, is that openness is being designed in from the ground level. …
Designing Data Centre automation solutions
Today was planned as a look at Sun’s system management solutions and the day was started by Sohrab Modi, the V/P for the group. We really have a problem with our branding, but we’re sticking with N1, managing maNy systems as 1. Sohrab’s presentation called “Simplify, Integrate, Automate”, hit two key points for me. The first is that its a solution, the second that there are two dimensions to virtualisation. …
A glass half full
Joost Pronk Van Hoogeveen, Solaris Virtualisation Product Manager presented. He had one rather excellent slide, showing Sun’s technologies as a spectrum, from Dynamic System Domains, though a Hypervisor solution, to Containers and then the Resource Manager. …
An epiphany about ZFS
I attended a lecture on ZFS, which I found inspiring for the first time. The original article is here, on my old sun/oracle blog. I called it an epiphany; but it’s now gone, this is what’s left on this blog. …
Back to SFO
I returned to San Francisco for a Data Center Ambassador’s Conference. …