Monday Aug 04, 2008
Last week I took my 5 year old daughter to see the
Walking with Dinosaurs show in NYC. We sat in the 3rd row-- check it out:
It was wonderful and a bit scary! I strongly recommend this show if you have small children that are learning about dinosaurs. Be careful if your seats are very close to
the stage, T-Rex is a carnivore and he looked
VERY hungry!!
Monday Jul 21, 2008
You know how much we like to brag, therefore it is our pleasure to inform you that four engineers from our very own Global Systems Engineering organization at Sun received the prestigious
Innovation Award for the
Sun Systemic Security Project last week at the Sun Leadership Conference award ceremony:
Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Security Architect
Joel Weise, GSS Principal Engineer, Chief Technologist, Sr. Security Architect
Rafat Alvi, GSS Principal Engineer, Sr. Security Architect
Bart Blanquart, Security Architect
Pictured at the awards ceremony from left to right: Greg Papadopoulos, Rafat Alvi, Bart Blanquart, Glenn Brunette, Joel Weise, Jonathan Schwartz
This team developed solutions that have enabled Sun to improve its products to better comply with our customer's security policies and requirements, develop new architectures and best practices that solve key customer security challenges and position Sun as an architectural and security thought leader across industry and government.
This is a fantastic achievement, so please join the divas in congratulating the Systemic Security team for winning Sun's Innovation Award!!
Thursday Jul 03, 2008
Find out
more on 7/9/08.
Monday Jun 30, 2008
I gave my first presentation in Second Life today - what a blast! I spoke about how Sun's Global Systems Engineering organization utilizes various Social Media tools /venues to build communities and share the wealth of information and technical experience with colleagues around the world.
Thanks to Christy for setting me up with some basic training and making my avatar
look like a goddess.
Best of luck to all the Sun Microsystems summer interns that participated in the meeting!
Thursday Jun 05, 2008
Isn't this the
SECOND year in a row that the Divas has to
blog (brag) about Sun being named by
Ethisphere Magazine as one of the
"World's Most Ethical Companies?"
Congrats to Sun!!
Tuesday May 20, 2008
What Hungarian city is administratively divided into 23 numbered districts, always written in Roman numerals??
If you don't know, you will have to pay a visit to this month's
SunStar, Erik Fischer, to find out!
How long have you been employed at Sun and where are you located?
I am with Sun since 1994, which means that I am in my 15th year at Sun. (Happy Anniversary from the Divas ! )
I am dwelling in the Budapest, Hungary Sun office.
What is your current job role?
At Sun, you don't have one job, you have many .
I am a Principal Engineer and also managing the Hungarian Systems
Engineering team. My background is computer and CPU architecture,
compliers, operating system architecture, application and system
performance measurement and tuning, and High Performance Computing.
My working hobby is security and CGI. So, the background and the long
time experience makes me to have not a single job, but to help and
contribute wherever I can. It is indeed a very pleasing situation,
since the toughest, hardest and most challenging problems find me
and I am happy to solve them! I am also handling the official press
conferences on technical subjects and organizing and participating
in many customer, partner and community activities. Finally I develop
a bunch of tools for fun.
Because they are SuperHeros, Sun Stars use their Super Powers to get
the job done. What are your Super Powers?
Well, I hardly believe, that I am a SuperHero, but my abysmal and
everlasting love towards the architecture of microprocessors helped
Sun and our customers a lot all over the world. It is truly one of
the major passions of my life to let people know and understand more
about the wonderful world and the technical beauty of the
microprocessor microarchitecture. So I grab every possible opportunity
to talk about it and help. Well, it might qualify as a Super Power...
What do you like best about working for Sun?
The talent, the excellence and the fantastic engineers that surrounds
us all at Sun is the foundation of the company and what I like best.
Have you had the opportunity to assist customers in creating energy
efficient data centers? If so, please give us an example.
I am an advocate of the energy efficient computing using our UltraSPARC
T processor family, which I demonstrated and introduced at many
customers and conferences.
Do you have a favorite blog or website? What about a favorite movie?
I do not have a single favorite site. I am a strong believer, that the
Internet as a whole is one of the marvels of what technology can do to
serve people. The Internet is something very close to mobile telephones
and mobile communication which gives an unprecedented communication
freedom to all of us. The wonder of the Internet is the community, the
content and the possibilities both on gathering information, doing
business or simply just reaching the other side of the world. This is
fascinating, entertaining and also challenging at the same time and
I love it!
Regarding movies, I am die hard fan of the moving pictures, but can not
name just a single one. There are so many marvelous and beautiful
movies and also there is a large number of very entertaining movies.
I own a DVD collection of around 600-700 disks, each one is my
favorite - and I can not have so many older ones - so if would be
definitely a long list to name them all...
Do you participate in any social networking websites?
I regularly posting at various forums in my native language
on the field of Solaris and microprocessors. I am also member of
Facebook and LinkedIn.
Please list any Sun or external communities that you are a member of.
I am member of IEEE CS, I am a Sun Principal Engineer, member of
the Sun Technical Systems Ambassador group, member of the Sun HPC
Aces community and participating in several Hungarian Unix related
user groups.
If you could go back or forward in time,where would you go?
Well, it is not an easy question. There were many-many interesting and
wonderful moments in the history of our small planet, furthermore the
future looks also very-very interesting. However, if I have to pick just
one moment, I definitely would like to see the times (if they will come
at all) when the human race leaves this planet and starts to colonize
other habitable planets or finds intelligent life forms.
Outside of work and family, is there anything that you're passionate
about?
As I already mentioned, I am a die hard fan of good movies. I am also
the fan of contemporary classical music and own around 1200-1300 CDs
full with truly wonderful - and sometimes hard to listen - music. I also
very much enjoy contemporary literature, especially from South-America,
from the Mediterranean region of Europe and from Japan. I am a collector
and reader of science fiction and own around 2000 books. Also enjoy the
history of computing machinery, drawing huge and small dragons and
learning the Maori language. I try to ride my bike as much as possible
and if my sons give me some free time, I make nature photos.
If you have an external blog, please send us the url.
I have my own web site, which is under construction currently: www.nomac.org
Tuesday May 20, 2008
Does it make me a bad mom that this is what I gave my 4 1/2 year old for dinner last Friday night? Pizza rolls and
Jiffy Pop!
It was movie night
("Barbie Mermaidia") and my husband was out of town. Why cook??
I "Googled" Jiffy Pop and learned that it was invented in the United States in 1958 by Fred Mennen. What a genius!! If you
grew up in the US and you are somewhere near my age range (or even what I claim to be)
you should remember this:
In case you're curious about the
nutritional value I was able to capture that as well:
Serving size
2 TABLESPOONS?!?!? That's about 6 pieces of popcorn, which means I ate at least 5 servings.
Anyway... it made me feel like a kid again and my daughter now thinks I'm the coolest mom in the world. Totally worth it- but I promise not
to do it again. (In case my husband or the grandparents are reading this)
Tuesday May 13, 2008
Sun is excited to
introduce a new line of innovative
x86/x64 systems and the continued build out of its x64 server line with the addition of
Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors.
The Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240, and Sun Fire X4440 servers all feature AMD Opteron processors.
The High Density and ECO efficiency of the Sun Fire X4140 and X4240 are ideal for virtualized Web 2.0 environments, while the exceptional capacity for Internal Scalability and a Highly Available design make the Sun Fire X4440 the choice for complex, business critical Database applications.
In addition, Sun extends the value of its current x64 product line by offering Quad-Core AMD support for the Sun Blade X8440, Sun Fire X4200 M2, Sun Fire X4100 M2, and Sun Fire X2200 M2 servers.
Upgrade to Quad-Core today!
Friday May 09, 2008
A
chipmunk - caught red handed, posing for the photo!!
Now what do I do?
Thursday May 08, 2008
Can somebody please tell me what this is??
I found this hole, about 10 inches in diameter, on the edge of my driveway. It is forcing me to climb in to the driver's seat of my car through the passenger door.
Could it be some kind of reptile, or dare I say "rodent", dwelling at my NJ suburban princess castle??
I'll keep you posted... but if you don't hear from me, send out a search party!!
Friday May 02, 2008
Bet you thought we were going to say "tequila"!!
Before you begin the traditional
Cinco de Mayo festivities, please join
Sun Microsystems as we open our tent flap to the developer community for the
OpenSolaris Launch at the
CommunityOne conference. Learn from experts representing a wide range of open source projects; from chip design to operating systems to web servers and databases to scripting languages and tools, in one jam-packed day you'll find sessions on everything you need to create and deploy a next generation infrastructure and compelling web experiences.
CommunityOne is a
FREE and
OPEN developer conference sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
Date: May 5, 2008 (the Monday of the
JavaOne conference week)
Location: Moscone Center, San Francisco, California
Register
here.
Monday Apr 28, 2008
Did you know that during the 2007
Oktoberfest
there were 6.2 million visitors, 69.406 hectoliters of beer consumed and 58.446 units pork knuckles eaten??
I bet our latest
Sun STAR, Constantin Gonzalez, can tell us many more interesting facts about his home town of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria!
How long have you been employed at Sun and where are you located?
I've been with Sun for more than 10 years now. I live in Munich, Germany with my wife Friederike and my 21 months old daughter Amanda.
What is your current job role?
At Sun, you don't have one job, you have many .
I work for Franz Haberhauer's Platform Technology Team in Sun Germany's Global Systems Engineering (GSE) organization and I'm part of the international Technical Systems Ambassador group.
We evangelize new hardware and OS technologies to customers and take back
their feedback to the product groups. Interesting technologies today are
Sun's new CMT processors, x64 systems and of course Solaris. Grid Computing
and Visualization are other favourite areas of mine, as is Web 2.0.
Most of the time, I stand in front of partners and customers and present about
interesting Sun technologies, do pre-sales consulting for customers or
help out in internal projects. For instance, I've been lately involved in
creating a Solaris training curriculum for GSE in europe.
We also have a group blog called Solarium
in which we blog in German about interesting Solaris features, tips and
tricks.
What do you like about working for Sun?
I'm a computer scientist (that's a formal term for "geek") by nature, and
at Sun you get to play with new and exciting technologies every day!
But the biggest part are people. No matter who you work with, there's
always a sense of helpfulness and, well, Sun spirit to it.
Please briefly describe any projects you are involved in that support
Sun's vision to see everyone and everything participating on the network.
There's a podcast we produce in Germany for the system administrator
community at Systemhelden.com. That's german for "System Heroes.com". (There's
also an english version at systemheroes.co.uk). The podcast is called
HELDENFunk ("Hero Radio") and it's produced by a couple of people from
(product) marketing and myself. We feature interviews with interesting people:
Sysadmins, bloggers, principal engineers, Sun partners, etc. By encouraging
people to podcast (and to blog, participate in wikis, etc.), I try to turn
them into active participants in the network.
You may not expect that from someone who's supposed to sell tech stuff, but
the reason that user generated content in web 2.0 is successful is because
it is authentic. You can't create a portal for sysadmins without having
sysadmin/tech type people behind it. Also, it's a great way for me as
an SE to reach a bigger audience than would be possible with traditional
presentations.
Have you had the opportunity to assist customers in creating energy
efficient data centers?
I was involved in introducing customers to UltraSPARC T1 and CMT in
Germany. For example, I worked with a financial customer in showing the
efficiency and throughput benefits of the T2000 for their Java based
application server infrastructure. I've also helped a telco OEM beta test
the T2000 for video streaming to handhelds and it proved to be a great
streaming server!
Do you have a favorite blog or website?
It's amazing how many bright people blog on blogs.sun.com. You could
spend hours reading them! Also, there's some fascinating stuff happening
at the Foresight Institute which deals with
advancing beneficial Nanotechnology. Who knows, we might end up using
tiny rods and gears instead of silicon for very futuristic CPUs...
When commuting or traveling by car, I like to listen to a couple of
podcasts, such as the one from
Extremetech.com, the EGM live podcast, the German
Podcast for Alternative Computer Systems,
the Blick ueber den Tellerrand, which is
a German web-2.0-in-business podcast, or BrainCast, a German podcast about your brain.
Do you participate in any social networking websites?
Yes, sure. In Europe, Xing is very popular. I'm also on
Facebook, LinkedIn and even Twitter.
Please list any Sun or external communities that you are a member of.
I'm a member of the Sun Technical Systems Ambassadors, a worldwide
group of senior SEs that serve as a link between customers and the
product groups for CPU, System and HPC related technologies. I'm also
a member of the German Unix User's Group " GUUG" and
a senior associate at the Foresight Institute.
If you could meet anyone tomorrow, who would it be? Why?
I'd love to meet Rhys Fulber, an amazingly creative electronic musician. He does everything from
electronic to punk to metal to sweet pop and if I had more time, I'd spend it learning to create music on my own .
Other interesting people I'd like to meet would be Robert Scoble, the famous blogger and Ray Kurzweil, the inventor, futurist and author.
Tell us a little known fact about yourself.
My dad is from Chile, my mother from Germany. I was born in Germany, went to
kindergarten in Colombia, elementary school in Turkey and Germany, then I
finished high school in Italy. So I grew up multilingual with Spanish and
German, then added English and Italian to the mix .
Outside of work and family, is there anything that you're passionate about (sports, causes, etc.)?
I'm always passionate about the future. That's why I like to be at Sun and
why I think Web 2.0 plays such a significant role in the world's culture.
At home, I have a lot of gadgets that are "future" to family and friends.
Those are mostly part of our home theater. It's one of those hobbies that are
never finished and where you always find something to improve on: Better
sound, better picture, streaming audio/video from a ZFS file server in the
basement, you know. But it's also one of those hobbies that bridges technology
with people: There's nothing like watching a great movie with family and
friends, nice picture, clean sound, a good wine (or beer, depending on the
movie) and no hassles or endless commercials you'd otherwise get at one of
those crowded multiplexes .
Do you have a blog?
Yes, Constantin's Blooog!
Maybe Constantin will add the
GSE Divas to his blogroll
Monday Apr 21, 2008
As a Diva, the last thing in the world I want to do is participate in a bowling event. Why?
Two
big reasons:
1) I don't want to wear bowling shoes. I only wear heels.
2) I don't drink beer or eat fried food.
But...
I love my sister and her birthday party was at Bowlmor Lanes in New York City, so I took a deep breath, put on
some heavy duty sweat socks, and slipped my feet into a pair of rented bowling shoes.
Now I'm all set!!
The perfect bowling score is 300. I bowled a 44
I told my husband that to avoid further embarrassment, I was going home if I threw one more "gutter" ball. So he told me to move over to the right since all my balls were curving to the left. Lo and behold, look what happened!!!
I bowled a TURKEY!! And my next game score was bumped up to 115!
In case you haven't heard of the term "Turkey" as it relates to bowling, I
Googled it:
A TURKEY is bowling lingo for
three strikes in a row. Probably, the most famous score for amateur and professional bowlers alike. The term dates back to before the turn of the 20th century. In those years, scoring was much more difficult and to get three strikes in a row was quite an achievement. During Thanksgiving or Christmas week, the proprietor would present a live turkey to the first person on each team who scored three consecutive strikes. The term has carried over ever since.
I was the only one to accomplish this feat the entire night.
What else would you expect from a
DIVA???
Thursday Apr 10, 2008
Sometimes it's gets lonely working from home. Today I had a visitor:
I know all my New York City friends are either laughing at me or worried right now...
Monday Apr 07, 2008
Last week the
Project BlackBox
truck made it's way to the Sun Microsystems New Jersey office.
Although it was parked in this Diva's favorite parking space, it was a fun event.
As you can see, the truck is now making it's way to New York City for it's April 8 & 9 visit to Broadway.
(45th street between Broadway and 6th to be exact)
No...not to see a show, but to invite you for a
private tour of the World's first Virtualized Datacenter!
In addition to this event, Sun will announce a new family of virtualized servers that
"Scale More with Less" on Wednesday, April 9, at the
Millennium Broadway Hotel (145 West 44th Street - NYC)
Please
join us, our favorite VP,
Hal Stern, will be presenting!
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
The
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the US Department of Defense (DoD).
DARPA’s mission is to prevent technological surprise for the US and to create technological surprise for our adversaries. So, how cool is it that Sun was just awarded $44 million for a five-and-a-half-year research project focused on bringing revolutionary improvements to optical computing?!?!?!
Please listen to our very own VP,
Hal Stern, interview Distinguished Engineers from Sun's Microelectronics Group, Ashok Krishnamoorthy and Jack Cunningham on the latest edition of the
Innovating@Sun Podcast Network. In this insightful interview they discuss the partnership with DARPA on the UNIC program, and how Sun is working to develop innovative technologies that will significantly lower the barrier to entry for optics.
Monday Mar 24, 2008
Just for fun, I took a
personality /career quiz that was posted by Monster.com on my Comcast email home page. Here are my results:
What's with all the
EXERCISE career suggestions? I guess they don't read the
Diva's Blog!
Thursday Mar 20, 2008
Not only is this Sun Star a great engineer, he can cook too!!
Introducing Franz Haberhauer, Technical Director and Chief Technologist!
Franz, we heard that you recently celebrated a milestone anniversary at Sun?
I just had my 15th anniversary - I joined Sun in January 1993 and I'm
based in Stuttgart, Germany.
What is your current job role?
As a Technical Director and Chief Technologist I evangelize Sun's new technologies and
work towards their adoption among our customers. I'm leading a small, highly skilled team of OS and Technical Systems Ambassadors focusing on platform technologies especially Solaris, HPC, but also Web 2.0. On the other hand we provide technical support for Sun's education and research business in Germany.
What do you like about working for Sun?
I enjoy working on the (b)leading edge of technology. Sun is an incredibly creative and innovative company with passionate
employees. The ambassador program and other international initiatives and task forces gave me a great opportunity to learn about and appreciate the cultural
diversity in an international company.
What paradigm shifts do you currently observe?
Sometimes it takes time until new technologies get adopted.
Sun Ray
isn't the latest technology, it had been on
the forefront of thin clients since years with session mobility as a
highlight. But now we are facing a perfect storm:
Desktop virtualization based on Sun Secure Global Desktop and Sun Ray on one hand are an approach
for a more efficient desktop provisioning and management and on the
other hand ultra thin clients are now
recognized as a means towards a more power efficient desktop landscape.
One of our projects in Germany
at University Hospital rechts der Isar, Munich has just been featured at
the Sun Analyst Summit 2008 session
on The New
Eco-Nomics. Sun Rays consume 95% less power than a PC based solution.
Another positive trend is the large interest in Solaris and OpenSolaris.
Sun's open source strategy is recognized
in the market - we get invited to events like
Linux Day or
LinuxTag which once picked Linux as a
synonym for Open Source but are still looking at the larger picture. Another driver are the technologies in Solaris, especially ZFS and Solaris Containers. At our recent partner university for which I acted as agenda lead the sessions on
ZFS and Container Best Practices have been the two most popular ones
among 30 breakout sessions coverings Sun's whole product and technology portfolio. Speaking about filesystems: SAM-FS is on the rise as well - a great fit for the digital archiving and library projects which are popping up everywhere.
Do you have a favorite blog or website?
blogs.sun.com has evolved into a great technical resource. Yet for much
information actually a Wiki would be better suited - like the
ZFS Best Practices Guide
on solarisinternals.com. But now there is Sun Wikis.
Beyond Sun - being a passionate photographer - dpreview is one of my favorite ones.
What about a favorite "junk" food?
One of my other passions is cooking - therefore "junk" food is not
really my favorite topic. DIVA comment: Oh... that explains the photo!!
Do you participate in any social networking websites?
Like most colleagues in Sun's German sales force I'm in
Xing - and internationally in
LinkedIn.
Beyond my professional life I'm participating in some German and
international photographer's forums
and communities like Flickr,
fotocommunity, and
Panoramio - I enjoy my pictures
showing up in Google Earth's geo layer.
Please list any Sun or external communities that you are a member of.
One of the most vivid communities within Sun are the worldwide OS Ambassadors.
They meet once or twice a year. Having met someone personally also
strengthens the relationships in a virtual community. I've made the experience that
people in virtual groups at some point in time want to meet others face to face in other
communities as well, e.g. within the fotocommunity
there are several local groups in Stuttgart which meet monthly.
Jointly with our local Sun Education Center I've set up a series of evening events
around Solaris and OpenSolaris:
Solaris@STEP
(named after the location STuttgart Engineering Park).
If you could meet anyone tomorrow, who would it be? Why?
Geoffrey Moore, author of "Crossing the Chasm". Having a focus on technology adoption, this book is a must read.
Tell us a little known fact about yourself.
Despite living in the home town of two leading car manufacturers - Mercedes and Porsche - I'm driving a BMW 525d touring.
Outside of work and family, is there anything that you're passionate about?
I mentioned my passions already: photography - taking pictures with my
Canon DSLR bodies (a 20D and a 40D)
as well as optimizing them through digital image processing , cooking
and eating out, and fine wines - especially from Tuscany and Bordeaux.
Do you have an external blog?
I maintain a blog in German on
blogs.sun.com/FranzHaberhauer.
While most
Germans in the IT business do speak
English pretty well many nevertheless prefer reading publications in
German. While I'm not very active in my own blog
I regularly contribute to my team's group blog
blogs.sun.com/Solarium which focuses on
Solaris and is maintained in German as well.
Monday Mar 17, 2008
I can do many things backwards: write, walk, swim, jump rope, roller blade, etc. Why can't I drive a straight line in reverse??
Here is my most recent landscaping "contribution" to our new home's driveway:
I tried to blame it on our gardeners (sorry guys) but my husband has a second career as a forensic detective and noticed the mud on my tires.
Now we have to add the following to our home improvement list:
+ widen driveway
Thursday Mar 13, 2008
Don't miss Hal Stern's interview with Distinguished Engineer, VP, and Chief Architect for Global Sales and Services, Dr. Jim Baty, and Jason Carolan, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect, in the latest edition of the Innovating@Sun Podcast: Defining Dynamic Infrastructure.
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Thursday Mar 06, 2008
What is this Sun STAR doing in front of a ship in Santander, in the North of Spain? What do you think?? A dedicated Sun engineer will use all available resources to help out a customer or colleague!
Introducing ---> Juan Carlos Fernandez Martin!
Juan-Carlos, how long have you been employed with Sun and where are you located?
I joined Sun 2 Jan 1997 so let me think uhmmmm 11 years, I didn't realize it was so long, it looks was yesterday when I started....
I am located at the Sun office in Madrid, Spain.
During this 11 years we have moved from Torre Picasso in the middle of the city
to Parque Empresarial "Parque Norte" that is not exactly in the downtown but I am happy because it take me 10 min to come
to the office, and 5 min to go back home (Guess why ?)
What is your current job role?
My current role is Solution Architect, but I have been 6 year as Benchmark Engineer, 4 year as System Engineer on Migrations
and last October I moved to Finance Business unit.
Have you had the opportunity to assist customers in creating energy efficient data centers?
In LBS (Life before Sun) I worked for a Siemens partner, and he tell me his biggest dream to see a Mainframe application to run on a Unix system (at the level it was sinix, Unix from Siemens) . I worked very hard for 9 months but when I showed him the results , and how easy it will be implement at the customer data center, he was nearly crying. This was a great moment.
What do you like about working for Sun?
Each new project is a new challenge, where in addition to helping a customer, It allows me to learn something new, so from this point of view I am very happy to work at Sun, and I am always ready to learn anything.
What is your favorite "junk" food?
Without doubt is "Tortilla española", not only tourists who like it, also me of course.
Do you participate in any social networking websites?
Yes, I participate in LinkedIn, Neurona, Xing, but it take me too much time but really now, I only maintained Linkedln.
Please list any Sun or external communities that you are a member of.
From the first days I joined Sun I started as Technical Ambassador, now I would like to continue as Solaris Ambassador but there is not free place for me in this moment, so I am waiting a free slot.
Tell us a little known fact about yourself.
Oh my family, I have a wife and two daughters, the biggest is studying at the Heidelberg University in Germany, so I learn to use
the skype and tools like this, that allow us to be in touch with my daughter.
Outside of work and family, is there anything that you're passionate about?
Always I have curiosity for Mayas, Incas, etc civilizations, so any time I found a book that tell me about this civilizations
I read it without sleeping until I finish. That's really what I like.
Monday Mar 03, 2008
This is what our play room looked like at 10 am:
And this is what it looked like at 11 am -- after leaving 5 sweet little girls (ages 2 - 5) to play without adult supervision:
Can you imagine the conversations that took place here?
Thank heaven for little girls!!
*** Just for the record, the moms were upstairs sharing our own secrets over coffee.
Thursday Feb 21, 2008
What do Hamburger Aalsuppe
(eel soup -- without the eel??) and Joerg Moellenkamp have in common? They are both
favorites of Hamburg, Germany!
Joerg, how long have you been employed with Sun and where are you located?
I'm at Sun since July 2001. I'm located in the Hamburg office.
What is your current job role?
Blooded Sunnie .... okay, more formally: I´m a Senior Systems Engineer at Global Systems Engineering. I see my primary role as an evangelist for Sun´s technology at customers and partners.
What do you like about working for Sun?
You see the world (okay, mostly it´s Germany, but I wasn´t in Las Vegas before Sun's Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) 2007 and I won´t visit it for vacation now. I didn´t like the city, the event was cool), the colleagues are nice, it´s paid well and they let you play with cool systems. And well, once you work at Sun you never have to buy a t-shirt or a polo again ... okay ... almost never.
Please briefly describe any projects you are involved in that support Sun's vision to see everyone and everything participating on the network.
A few years ago I invented and developed an secure online payment system for a mobile telephone provider. It was based on challenge-response and deliberate media breaks between web and mobile phones.
In the mean time I worked on many web projects as a networking specialist, as this was my specialty before and at Sun.
I´m an avid user of Web 2.0 services. My bookmarks are at del.icio.us, my favorite music is visible at last.fm, the list of my flights in the past are at flugstatisitik.de. I just
don´t like services based on my actual location out of security reasons. People know where you are at a given time, but they know as well, where you aren´t.
My main project to support that vision: www.c0t0d0s0.org. A blog about Sun, my life at Sun and all the rest. It´s an important part of my life since three and a half years and it´s getting quite successful now. 5000 Visits a day. 500 to 600 subscribers (but: web analytics is to computer science, what astrology is to astronomy).
Have you had the opportunity to assist customers in creating energy efficient data centers? If so, please give us an example.
In LBS (Life before Sun) i worked as Senior Director for Networks and Infrastructure at Canbox Systems AG (Senior ... what a joke, I was 27 at that time). I was the manager and the lead architect for the world wide datacenter project. Two datacenters (in Singapore and Boston) were used one, but the one in Germany (in the nice but small city Oldenburg) was a complete new one. My team worked on more efficient cooling at that time and the usage of the heat in the datacenter to heat our offices. But then came the German version of Chapter Eleven as one of the smaller explosions of the burst of the dot com bubble.
Since i´m working at Sun I help my customers by working together with them to make their datacenter more efficient ... and by selling them CMT servers, of course
Do you have a favorite blog or website?
Oh, my feedreader collects 300 feeds. Hey ... I´m a news junkie. My "A-Blogs" list contains 10 blogs on average. But "favorite blog" is singular. That´s a difficult decision. The blog with the longest history of being in this list is Schneier on Security. This blog is written by the security luminary Bruce Schneier. Yes, the Schneier who knows Alice´s and Bob´s shared secret
What about a favorite "junk" food?
My favorite "junk" food isn´t really junk food in it´s normal definition. It´s a pastry called
Franzbrötchen. It´s made out of flaky pastry dough with cinnamon and butter. This pastry is something local to Hamburg. Just a few kilometers outside of Hamburg it´s getting increasingly harder to buy some.
Do you participate in any social networking websites?
Yes ... I´m participating in LinkedIn and
Xing. Xing is somewhat similar to LinkedIn but more popular in Germany.
Please list any Sun or external communities that you are a member of.
I´m part of the Solaris Adoption team here in Germany. And I try to form a community of people around my blog. Hey, and I´m member of the SunDragons, a dragonboating team founded by some Sun employees.
If you could meet anyone tomorrow, who would it be? Why?
I would like to meet Hector Berlioz, as i want to know if he was really that weird as the massive orchestration of the "Grande Messe" suggests.
Tell us a little known fact about yourself.
The facts I want to share, are already in my blog, and the ones, I don´t want to share ... well, I won´t write them here, either Okay, one fact I didn´t publish in my blog so far: I´m a fan of the German soccer club Werder Bremen, but I´m not a really passionate fan. It´s more like local patriotism, as I lived near of Bremen for a longer period.
Outside of work and family, is there anything that you're passionate about?
I´m an avid semi-pro photographer. You can look at some of my photos on Flickr. In spring and summer I try to get as often as possible on my mountain-bike and try to avoid hitting jaywalkers. I´m a fan of classic music, jazz and electronic music.
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Visit Joerg's blog at c0t0d0s0.org: The Sun in a Lighthungry Universe
Thursday Feb 14, 2008
I imagine it is tough being the significant other of a
GSE Diva on
Valentine's Day.
It's no secret that Divas have high expectations! But our guys came through:
And what did this Diva give in return? A
homemade cake:
Thanks again
Duncan Hines!!
Happy Valentine's Day to all you Divas out there and the GREAT guys who put up with you!!
Thursday Feb 14, 2008
Sun Microsystems Podcast Network:
Innovating@Sun with your host, Hal Stern, VP of Global Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems.
Sun is Open Sourcing both the Squawk virtual machine as well as the hardware specifications for what it can run on. Hal interviews Eric Arseneau, the Sun Labs principal investigator of the Squawk virtual machine.
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