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http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn/en/date/20080626 Thursday June 26, 2008

Walking at work ...

Why do we information workers have to sit all day? Sitting during conference calls, sitting during meetings, sitting and typing, why, why, why? Couldn't I stand for a while? How about chatting while walking, would that be acceptable?

Dr. James Levine at the Mayo Clinic's NEAT Lab asked these same questions, and came up with a great answer. A treadmill for your office. Check out the USAtoday article and the article on Squidoo. This is such a great idea.

 Now wouldn't it be great to combine this idea and a SunRay? Then you could be walking on your treadmill, or strolling through a hall way and when you needed to work or type, just plug in your badge and have your computer session up and running. That would be totally slick.

Now how do I convince Sun that I should have one of these in my office? I'll have to start with my boss. 



Posted by Jeff Cheeney [Personal] ( June 26, 2008 10:01 AM ) Permalink
http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn/en/date/20080613 Friday June 13, 2008

COMSTAR - Server = Storage Array??

Over the past few weeks information about a great new storage feature in OpenSolaris has been trickling out. The feature is COMSTAR (COMSTAR = COmmon Multiprotocol SCSI TARget). To learn more about COMSTAR the OpenSolaris project page include a number of videos and an outstanding administration guide.

I personally had the chance to play with COMSTAR a few weeks back and found it simply amazing. It was so cool being able to create a ZFS volume and share it to a windows host in around 10 minutes. I wrote up my experience in this presentation. There is a chance the presentation as given to the Front Range OpenSolaris User group may soon be a video.

Some other interesting reading about COMSTAR are:

There was also the press coverage:

I'm sure the excitement is just getting started and I really look forward to how this technology will be used in a future product ...



Posted by Jeff Cheeney [Open Source Storage] ( June 13, 2008 10:58 AM ) Permalink



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