I spoke at TechForum in New York earlier this week. Here is a copy of my presentation for anyone who is interested. The official title is “Rethinking Storage Strategies: How Virtualization is Transforming Storage.” At a high level, I spoke about the current trends in storage and how they play together with server virtualization. I do not think it will have the same impact without the running commentary, so feel free to comment here or drop me a line if you have any questions.

  Storage Trends and Server Virtualization (199.0 KiB)

Topic: DTrace Deep Dive and a short talk on LDOM Domains and ZFS

When:
Burlington MA Sun Campus – Feb 2, 2010 6:00PM to 9:00 PM
Boston MA – Boston University – Feb 3, 2010 6:00PM to 9:00 PM
(Note: The same content will be presented twice – once in Burlington and once in Boston. Pick the best location and date as convenient.)

Where:
Feb 2 – Sun Microsystems Burlington Campus; 1 Network Drive, Burlington, MA
Feb 3 – Boston University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Photonics Center Building – Room PHO 339 (3rd floor), 8 Saint Mary’s Street Boston, MA 02215
BU Parking: Street parking available on St. Mary’s Street and Bay State Road. Metered parking spots do not require a fee after 6pm.

RSVP: To Linda Wendlandt: lwendlandt@cptech.com

Registration Required! – so we can plan food and drink

Join Jim Mauro and Shannon Sylvia for how-to DTrace, and how to use LDOMs with ZFS.

AGENDA:

6:00-6:20: Registration, Pizza and Beverages

6:20-6:30: Introductions: Peter Galvin, CTO, Corporate Technologies

6:30-8:30: Solaris Dynamic Tracing – DTrace – Jim Mauro, Principle Engineer, Sun Microsystems

8:30-9:00: LDOM Domains and ZFS: An example of creating a ZFS bootable root LDOM domain using jumpstart – Shannon Sylvia, Sysadmin, Northeastern University

9:00 Q&A and Discussion

Also we’ll be giving out official NEOSUG T-Shirts and other trinkets, and copies of the OpenSolaris CD and instruction manual.

For more information see the NEOSUG discussion forum.

There is still time to register for the  VMware vs. Hyper-V Hands-on Workshop we are holding on Wednesday, November 18th, at the Hilton Boston/Woburn hotel in Woburn, MA.

The workshop will begin at 8:30 am and includes lunch. During the workshop John Laferriere will present a quick overview of Corporate Technologies. Next I will present a talk based on our VMware vSphere 4 vs. Hyper-V R2 white paper. Next Sean Daly and Joe Gries will do hands-on demonstrations of the two technologies. This will be followed by Q&A and lunch.

We are encouraging attendees to ask us about specific use cases and solution requirements to optimize the value of the workshop.  For more details and to register please see the invitation.

(Sorry for the short notice… hope you can join us)

Topic: An Introduction to OpenSolaris and its Uses

When: November 11, 2009 6:00PM to 9:00 PM

Where: Boston University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Photonics Center Building – Room PHO 339 (3rd floor), 8 Saint Mary’s Street Boston, MA 02215 http://www.mapquest.com/maps?&city=boston&state=ma&address=8%20st.%20mary%27s%20street

Parking: Street parking available on St. Mary’s Street and Bay State Road. Metered parking spots do not require a fee after 6pm.

RSVP: To Ayse Kivilcim Coskun (acoskun at bu dot edu)

Registration Required! – so we can plan food and drink

Join Brian Leonard, Bogdan Vasiliu, Ayse Coskun, and Peter Galvin for an overview of OpenSolaris and its uses.

AGENDA:

6:00-6:20: Registration, Pizza and Beverages

6:20-6:30: Introductions: Peter Galvin, CTO, Corporate Technologies

6:30-8:00: What’s So Cool About OpenSolaris Anyway – Brian Leonard, Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems

8:00-8:30: OpenSolaris: Clusters and Clouds from your Laptop – Bogdan Vasiliu, Solaris HPC, Sun Microsystems,Inc.

8:00-8:30: Presentation: Solaris containers – Peter Galvin, CTO – IT Architecture, Corporate Technologies

8:30-8:45: OpenSolaris as a Research and Teaching Tool – Ayse K. Coskun, Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Boston University

8:45-9:00 Q&A and Discussion

- Also we’ll be giving out official NEOSUG T-Shirts and other trinkets, and copies of the OpenSolaris CD and instruction manual.

For more information please see the full announcement in the NEOSUG forum.

We’ve just announced the next NEOSUG (New England Open Solaris User’s Group) meeting

You Are Invited to the New England Open Solaris Users Group

Topic: All Virtualization all the Time

When: October 6th, 2009 6:00PM to 9:00 PM

Where: Sun Microsystems Burlington Campus; 1 Network Drive, Burlington, MA

RSVP: To Linda Wendlandt: lwendlandt at cptech dot com lwendlandt@cptech.com

Registration Required! – so we can plan food and drink

Join Eric Sharakan, Kais Belgaied, and Peter Galvin in an update on LDOMs, Solaris on Xen, project Crossbow (network virtualization), and Solaris Containers.

AGENDA:

6:00-6:20: Registration, Pizza and Beverages

6:20-6:30: Introductions: Peter Galvin, CTO, Corporate Technologies

6:30-7:30: Presentation: Logical Domains & Solaris on Xen – Eric Sharakan, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

7:30-8:00: Presentation: Crossbow – Kais Belgaied, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

8:00-8:30: Presentation: Solaris containers – Peter Galvin, CTO – IT Architecture, Corporate Technologies

**** Also we’ll be giving out official NEOSUG T-Shirts and other trinkets, and copies of the OpenSolaris CD and instruction manual.

For more details on the talks please visit the NEOSUG web site at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ne-osug/

You are invited to: The New England Open Solaris User Group (NEOSUG) Meeting

When: June 23rd, 2009 6:00PM to 9:00 PM

Where: Sun Microsystems Burlington Campus; 1 Network Drive, Burlington, MA

RSVP: To Linda Wendlandt: lwendlandt at cptech dot com lwendlandt@cptech.com

Registration Required! – so we can plan food and drink

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I’ll be teaching two days of my Solaris tutorials at the Usenix ATC conference in San Diego during the week of June 15th. Hope to see you there!

I will be participating in a panel discussion at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York on Wednesday (4/2). The topic is “How and Why is a Flexible IT Infrastructure the Key To the Future?” Please stop by and say hello if you are at the show.

Last week I gave a presentation at the TechForum Roundtable in New York. Thank you to Priscilla Tate for running a great event.

Backup to disk is the number one application for deduplication today. My presentation covered the most common approaches vendors use to leverage deduplication in a backup environment. This includes client side, backup server based, inline processing, and post-processing.

  Demystifying Deduplication (7.9 MiB)

This topic was originally developed as part of a CTI Strategy Services consulting engagement. The customer credited us with saving them 6 months of effort.

We’ve rescheduled the sixth NEOSUG meeting for March 11. Dave Miner will talk about the state of OpenSolaris and demo some new functionality, and I’ll talk about what’s new in the Solaris 10 update 6 (11/08) release. Hope to see you there. For full details and registration info have look at the NEOSUG discussion forum.