Well, I'm catching up on my e-mail after spending a few days on the road. It seems that the last few days have been quite busy around here! I know that some readers of this blog run or work with OpenVMS, and I'm reminded that we often don't promote it enough. So, when there is an announcement...
It is announcement day here at HP [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/091104xa.html], so there are a large number of new and updated products, services, and visions to take a look at. Many people in the Business Critical Systems group, and actually across Enterprise Servers and Networking,...
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11-04-2009
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In the UNIX world, performance is often one of the big decision factors, especially for scale up workloads. Over the years, I've taken part in a lot of performance discussions, both with customers and with the engineers that design systems and write software. While reliability, availability, serviceability...
We finished a fabulous Superdome Tech Day yesterday with a number of bloggers. I need to go and see what they have written, but I know that at least one site actually covered the event live. There were also a lot of tweets using the tag #HPSuperdome. There were a couple of questions, thoughts, and interesting...
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10-06-2009
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Eight days seems like a long time to be in Vegas. It is. But when you’re working, getting things done, meeting and socializing with members and partners, time flies by and you’re left wishing you had just a wee bit more time. Don’t get me wrong, I boarded the plane exhausted but felt...
Happy New Year! I wish all of you a year filled with all things good. Over the holidays, I was interviewed quite a bit by the media over my IT predictions for 2009. Although I’m no prognosticator, I feel certain that the explosive growth of social media will lend itself to a greater need or expansive...