Tuesday Sep 09, 2008

When I first joined Sun I was working on NetConnect, on the infrastructure, the infamous MLMs. I and several others joined en-masse when a group all left. We knew the group from Channelpoint. For a couple years, we did various "Sun Connected" projects, some ended up being throw-away, others led to SWUP, aka Sun Connection, which eventually was EOLd when Aduva came on board. Then we tried the whole Sun Connection Readiness Kit, at the beginning of the recent emphasis on connecting customers and assets. That is still going on, but has migrated to Service Tags. Parts of SCRK, the Client Reg Service, still live on and are being used by both Service Tag clients and xVM Ops Center satellites, to establish the initial secure connection between the customer client and Sun's datacenter.

After a major layoff to our old CNS org (had to try and remember the name), we briefly became Sysnet but are now generally as part of the xVM group. Last year we focused on what we called Coso, or the 1.0 version of xVM Ops Center, which was an amalgamation of N1SM, SCRK, Update and Service Tags. This year we worked on updates to 1.0 as well as the xVM Server and 2.0 of Ops Center. We're working on the management/UI portion of xVM Server, which is a productization of the Xen-based hypervisor. xVM Server is in EA right now. 2.0 Ops Center will be able manage multiple xVM Servers (as well as other non-virtual assets like it did in 1.x). On Ops Center, my group works on infrastructure, working closely with the Cacao team in Grenoble, France. I work on several portions such as backend services and UI. This year we've moved the UI in exciting directions, using Ext JS and DOJO, as well as continued usage of the Zk toolkit from 1.0.