Mithun's Memoirs

Friday Nov 14, 2008

Virtualization for dummies

Virtualization is one of those buzzwords that is being freely floated around the industry left and right, and can mean so many different things to so many different people. Virtualization technology is a way of making a physical computer function as if it were two or more computers or even a totally different computer altogether.Growing user demand for 24/7 access to fast-response systems stretches the capabilities of any datacenter. Server virtualization can help you meet that demand by enabling servers to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications. With virtualization, datacenters can grow so quickly and cost-effectively that you may not even need more hardware, space, cooling capacity, or electricity to meet that growing demand.

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Posted at 01:17PM Nov 14, 2008 by mithun in Sun  |  Comments[1]

Wednesday Dec 05, 2007

Tech Days Frankfurt

Sun Microsystems' premier global developer conference, Tech Days, travels the globe to share expertise with the community about the Solaris Operating System, Java technology, the NetBeans IDE, Project GlassFish, etc. The Sun Tech Days was in Germany this year and I was a part of this gigantic action too!

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Posted at 11:34PM Dec 05, 2007 by mithun in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Friday Nov 30, 2007

SAP on Xen

We worked on a performance study project titled : SAP on Xen using Linux as the host platform, running on Sun hardware. I've finally finished writing the whitepaper ( draft ) and the first review is complete. I'm making this available at this blog, so you get a chance to read the materials and provide me with comments and suggestions, before the whitepaper goes into more serious review and finally into print.

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Posted at 12:46PM Nov 30, 2007 by mithun in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Friday Oct 19, 2007

Using DTrace with Java & Web 2.0 (Code Camp, Walldorf)

Special thanks to Angelo Rajadurai, who was the original author of the Lab. The details of this lab is available here

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Posted at 09:26AM Oct 19, 2007 by mithun in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Wednesday Jul 25, 2007

Code Camp - From Walldorf to the World

If you are an ISV development engineer, then Sun Code Camps are an
ideal place to gain hands-on experience with Sun's new technologies.
Code Camps are packed with technical content, hands-on programming
exercises and sample code. Sun's Code Camp leader provides an
engineer-to-engineer learning experience that is intensive and
technically stimulating. The focus is on delivering programming
information and sample code that you can put to good use right away.

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Posted at 08:16AM Jul 25, 2007 by mithun in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Sunday Jul 22, 2007

Code Camp Demystified

If you are an ISV development engineer, then Sun Code Camps are an
ideal place to gain hands-on experience with Sun's new technologies.
Code Camps are packed with technical content, hands-on programming
exercises and sample code. Sun's Code Camp leader provides an
engineer-to-engineer learning experience that is intensive and
technically stimulating. The focus is on delivering programming
information and sample code that you can put to good use right away.

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Posted at 05:08PM Jul 22, 2007 by mithun in Sun  |  Comments[0]