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Rock is dead?

I do hope that at least this rumor is a pure speculation even it sounds convincing. Otherwise the future of Sun’s hardware business after the deal with Oracle is over looks increasingly dismal.

Posted on June 19, 2009 at 1:40 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Unified Storage Simulator

Recently I had a chance to fiddle with Sun Storage 7000 Simulator and was totally amazed about this product. It’s absolutely fantastic and awesome because it gives everyone an opportunity to study and familiarize with Sun 7xxx storage appliance just by the means of VirtualBox (or VMWare). Once you boot and go through the initial […]

Posted on June 5, 2009 at 4:29 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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OpenSolaris 2009.06 is here

Today, during ongoing CommunityOne confrerence, the new OpenSolaris release was announced with bunch of compelling new features i.e. Crossbow, ClearView, COMSTAR, SPARC support and a lot of more. Release details could be retrieved from OpenSolaris web site.

Posted on June 1, 2009 at 6:45 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Spontaneous domain reboot on SunFire 6800

Because the respective case at Sun was closed, I want to add this note for the future reference, just in case. So… One day I came to my desk and found that one the domains on SF6800 had been reboot for no reason, at least the very first impression was exactly like that. Superficially and […]

Posted on June 1, 2009 at 1:42 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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