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. . . I'm still cleaning up from last night's New Year's Eve celebrations and getting used to the nuances of the Sun Blog's Roller system. While I am working out the kinks on that, I will introduce myself. My name is Ken Pepple and I have worked here at Sun Microsystems for about 8 years. During that time, I've worked in a variety of geographies (from the US to Asia) and jobs (mostly centered on data centre and desktop consulting).

I've also had a chance to do some writing. My first book, written with David Hornby, “Consolidation In the Data Center: Simplifying IT Environments To Reduce Total Cost of Ownership” was published in 2002. “Migrating to the Solaris Operating System: The Discipline of UNIX-to-UNIX Migrations”, was co-written with David Levy and Brian Down and released in late 2003. I also co-wrote and taught Sun Education's “Solaris Performance and Tuning Secrets” seminar back before the turn of the century.

Today, I spend most of my time architecting customer solutions with Sun's desktop infrastructure products, Sun Ray and Sun Secure Global Desktop, and Solaris. On this blog, I will be speaking about whatever I am working on at the time. That could be a second edition to one of my previous books, new projects that I am working on at Sun or ever mountain bike racing.