Taylor's Take on Sun Storage

My Switch from PC to Mac....

Well, I'm officially blogging from my new MacBook Pro after my old Dell PC fizzled out on me.... 

What a difference a decade makes.  I started out on Apple as a Web developer.  It was my platform of choice and I never thought I'd go to a PC - I was loyal to the core.  I remember the good 'ol days of making sure my Config PPP screen showed two connected smiley faces; and the days of posting docs to my websites with my Gopher or Fetch (FTP) applications.  The days of Mosaic...and then Netscape (I still remember how excited I was when I first saw Netscape).  But then I left Web development to join an HP distributor and it was PCs from then on...

Why the switch?  

Despite the great ads; I got into multimedia and Web 2.0 for lack of a better term.  Even though I'm a "business/marketing guy"; I get to re-live the good 'ol days through my blog, Wikis and Podcasts.  I also develop home movies and videos.  So the switch started at home - I bought a Mac for our home computer several months ago b/c of all the multimedia features it had. 

I made the switch to Mac for business this week after leaving Mac over 10 years ago.  I use multimedia and Web features in business more now than I ever have before.  The design and innovation coming out of Mac has been incredible lately - so the geek in me had some influence as well.  Also, so far, all the applications I had on my PC work well (sometimes better) on this Mac (but of course I just got it).  

But a large driver was also working at Sun - while my new Mac is pretty foreign to me at this point in time; I did see something familiar in its disk utility - ZFS.  It's pretty cool to see your company's enterprise-class file system on your consumer laptop.  A testament to the versatility to ZFS and open software...  

Posted at 12:28PM Jun 19, 2008 by Taylor Allis in Storage Intelligence  |  Comments[2]