Tuesday August 05, 2008
Conversations ... Dave Stewart and Storage Summit
Present Conversation:
Last week I had the great privilege to interview the infamous Intel Dave ... a title that he really finds funny by the way. Dave was in town to visit family and he happened to be able to stop by the Sun offices in Broomfield for the FROSUG meeting. He gave a great talk on Intel's participation in OpenSolaris and how they are contributing. Before the FROSUG meeting I had the opportunity to sit down with him and chat about OpenSolaris and what it is like to be outside of Sun contributing to to this project. It was informative and the idea of giving people credit for their contributions resonated with me. We'll be trying to do this in the storage community. Watch the interview and then I'll be interested in your ideas on how to make people's contributions known. Drop a comment and let me know your thoughts.
Future Conversation
The OpenSolaris storage community in conjunction with the Sun's Open Storage Initiative are proud to host the first annual OpenSolaris Storage Summit, Sept 21, 2008. This summit will directly proceed the SNIA Storage Developer Conference, of which Sun is a sponsor and will be a great time for users and developers of OpenSolaris storage technologies to meet each others and hear about some cool happenings. So far we have signed up Mike Shapiro (of dTrace fame) and Ben Rockwood (Joyent dude and OpenSolaris evangelist) as keynote speakers. We are looking for other speakers and topic suggestions. So drop by the summit wiki, give us your suggestions and sign up to attend. The whole event is free of charge and we are planning a great party Sunday evening. Is you will be in the Bay Area on the 21st of September we would love to see you.
Posted by Jeff Cheeney [Open Source Storage] ( August 05, 2008 07:16 PM ) Permalink
Friday August 01, 2008
Happenings Around Storage - July 2008
- Happenings Around the Storage Community – July 2008
- It's summer time and I'm spending a bunch of time thinking about hiking and staying cool. My home town of Denver finished the month of July with 19 consecutive days above 90 degreed Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius). That way too hot for my comfort.
- While we here in Colorado are sweating because of the heat, many folks around the community have been pulling away and delivering some exciting accomplishments. As always, I've been trying to catalog the accomplishments on our Status Page, but let's recap.
- Tom Haynes announced the availability of the latest version of the pNFS code as based on the draft 19 version of the IETF standard
- Project Celeste - a Sun Microsystems Laboratories research project investigating techniques for building a distributed, master-less, peer-to-peer, byzantine and fault-tolerant mutable object store is live (9-July)
- OpenSolaris mega_sas driver project is now Live! The driver support the LSI MegaRAID SAS HBA. (18-July)
- The guys from the FCoE team have posted the latest packages and source on their project page. This is a great addition to the COMSTAR infrastructure. (30-July)
Ramana from the Object Storage Device (OSD) project posted the latest source and binaries for the OSD target. (31-July)
- We also have a really cool event planned for just before SNIA's Developer Conference. More on that next week.
- Let's close this post with a request. Are you interested in helping the storage community with some translations? We are looking for some help localizing some blog posts and some of our community web pages. If you are interested in helping out, leave me a comment and let me know.
Posted by Jeff Cheeney [Open Source Storage] ( August 01, 2008 05:36 PM ) Permalink
