My name is Craig Steinberger, and I'm a technical specialist in Sun's Client Solutions Data Center practice based out of Rochester, NY. I joined Sun in 2001, and I've typically worked at Sun customer sites defining and delivering solutions. My professional interest areas are Solaris, performance and capacity management, data center operations, and architectural issues. I've also developed some expertise in storage, backups, and Oracle.

I come from a engineering background, and in a previous life I earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering studying turbulent combustion and computational fluid dynamics (that is, big iron number crunching). I spent a short period of time doing web design (in the early days of the web), computer animation, and motion graphics, although those are just hobbies now.

I'll probably be writing about the applied side of Sun's products. There are plenty of engineers writing about the latest and greatest things that they've developed, but I'd like to concentrate on what it takes to get it all working in the real world. I'm currently also interested in the new Service Management Facility (smf) in Solaris 10 and in the OpenSolaris project.