Moving to China

I've moved to Beijing for six months, to help the Sun team here pick up
some of the storage software that I've worked on in the past. The
opportunity arose when we decided to move some development work here.
After waiting a long time for different administrative approvals within
Sun, I finally made it here 8 days ago.

I live in a small apartment, not far from the Sun office. The Sun office looks
surprisingly like any Sun office, similar decorations. It's a little
quieter than Colorado, but you really could be in any Sun office.

My neighborhood is called Wudaokou. It's near several universities, so there
are lots of students, foreign as well as Chinese. There are a couple
restaurants for western students that could be in any college town in the
US, as well as lots of good Chinese restaurants. There's a fair amount of
high tech and some huge electronics stores. There's a subway stop nearby,
which is great for getting into the city center.

Different topic - a white paper (called blue print at Sun) I wrote with a
colleague at Sun was recently published. It talks about combining existing
functionality built into Solaris with the newly released iSCSI initiator
to achieve redundant connections. The story is still not simple, and will
probably get more complex before the industry settles on de facto
standards, but hopefully this paper will help. See www.sun.com/blueprints