I’m not actually pleased about this, since I used to deal with a 24/7 web infrastructure and having to keep it up (and how painful that is), but Google is so omnipresent that any downtime is devastating. At the moment, every link from a search gives you a “Warning – visiting this web site [...]
In my day job, I rarely get the opportunity to get as “hands on” as I used to – I still work with Oracle, and of course I still work with our software every day. But the days when I get to roll up my sleeves and dig into a UNIX, storage, or networking problem [...]
A friend of mine pointed out today that UNIX time is approaching an interesting event – one day next month, the number of seconds since the Epoch will (for one second) be 1234567890.
As if that’s not weird enough, it will happen on Friday the 13th at 6:31. Clearly the world will be coming to an [...]
Everyone and their mother has been writing about this, but yes, Cisco is entering the server business. Details are still skimpy, but it looks like it’s a blade server, it’s got VMWare baked in, and the word “virtualization” gets thrown around every three sentences or so. I’ve been talking to some people who don’t understand [...]
Chuck Hollis, one of EMC’s senior execs and frequent blogger, has posted some odds and ends, but the one item that got my dander up was a little blurb on Exadata, Oracle’s storage server appliance. To quote Chuck:
“Oracle’s DW behemoth was announced with great fanfare last September. My pointed skepticsm even resulted in a minor [...]
Chris Evans, the storage architect, just published a post about storage migrations. He talks about how the increasing storage capacity of arrays means that when you have to replace them, the process is ever-so-much more painful. I completely agree, but I think there’s a few points to consider when looking at this process.
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Hu Yoshida, the CTO at Hitachi Data Systems, has a blog post up outlining his IT predictions for 2009. Some of them are fairly uncontroversial (midrange storage will continue to get more high-end features, people will spend less money buying new storage, more money on managing it more efficiently, etc.), but there’s one I find [...]
Michael Arrington, over at TechCrunch, has gotten ahold of some of the contents of a private Google Group that Google HR set up to get some feedback on why people left the company. Reading through the thread, it all seems like your typical gripes that ex-employees have about why they left the company, with some [...]
Well, hello, and welcome to a new blog. If you’re seeing this post, it means I haven’t gotten far enough along in writing content to have this scroll off the main page. Sorry about that.
My name is Matthew Zito – I work in technology, and you can find more information about me in the About [...]