First comments from Wednesday morning, again backstage...

The Virtualization debatte was not well visited, I assume, it's been due to the fact, that we were one of the last slots on Tuesday, and therefore one of the last breakouts... Still, we had a good discussion, and hopefully some of the audience did benefit from it.

Then coming in this morning, we found that some bloody morons did steal some of our equippement, so today we're running from the backup-option...

I always suspected security alone and using cables to fix laptops to tables wont be enough... Bloody morons...

On the message list of today are some complaining about the quality of the service at Palms yesterday, w.r.t. food and such during the party... It seems, Palms need to re-think it's approach to services...

This morning will have the breakouts by practices, and then the closing general session, and most are then off to the planes. So, everyone, thanks fo being here at CEC 2007, have a safe trip home, and hopefully see you all next year!

Matthias

tags: suncec2007

Last comment on a session of today, before I have to jump into my session...

I just visited and fled the session of Ed Rak on the Sun Streaming System. Excellent topic, excellent slides, real boring presentator. Sad to need to be so bluntly outspoken, but many did flee that presentation for the same reasons...

Now into the Virtualization debatte (I'm the moderator, see below), and then off to the Party at Palms...

Matthias

tags: suncec2007

Having passed nearly half of CEC 2007, what have been the highlights for me so far?

For sure, shaking hands and talking with Jonathan before and during the podcast referenced in a former entry. Then the talk from Alec Muffett on Customers in 2012, and Christian Bandulet's talk on storage also already mentioned.

One thing is for sure! The overall quality of the breakout session this year seems to be even better then in previous years. Let's hope, that the second half will be as good!

Matthias

tags: suncec2007

As tomorrow will already be the close of CEC, I try to write the summary from Tuesday's session as early as I can, so here we go:

The first one I went to was a session from Rich Zippel on Redshift, Virtualization and DataCenters. I should have choosen a better slot... Rich tried to map DataCenter layouts and buying and development trends onto each other, coming up with different images of representations for them. Nice, but I didn't actually see the real value in that. His summary slide, which he reached after 35 minutes (he could have been talking officially for an hour, that's the length for each presentation) simply stated: The thing that I wanted to relay to you is the simple fact, that readshift and blueshift companies are different... Oh, Boy, that's why we have two different words for them...

The next session was from Christian Bandulet and is entitled: The File System Survey: local, distributed, global, object, shared, clustered, parallel, SAN, NAS, FAN, WAFS...?

Boy, if ever I thought, storage was simple, I was completely mistaken!

Christian did an outstanding job in segmenting and structuring the products and technologies. I now have a crystal clear understanding of all of these things (and much more), and do honestly know, why we need a Storage Practice! Christian, hats up!

And now, I'm just spending a slot to write these summaries...

Matthias

tags: suncec2007

I never ever thought, I might envy people for their devices...

But: This is the time...

You've ever seen an iPhone in action? You ever saw, how easy it gets to use a mobile device to access all the things on the internet? How smooth the display of big web-pages can be? How nice eMail can look on a phone? How easy it is to chat from your phone either via IM or SMS? How sleek a device running an Unix-like operating system can look like in the palm of your hand? How nice it feels to hold it? I could rant on forever...

This surely is a MUST-HAVE device, and I'm actively considering getting one... If only they could be used with EVERY networkprovider, and having the additional UMTS protocol implemented for us in Europe...

Damned, I never thought being forced to really consider to "hack" a tool to be able to use it was so challenging...

Matthias

tags: suncec2007

This morning sessions were cut into two: One internal to Sun and CEC, and one being a product launch.

Being backstage I can give a little more feedback on the diverse communities, the Sun/CEC folks and the launch-attending folks are w.r.t. WEB 2.0 perception...

This years input from the Sun/CEC community w.r.t. questions and messages coming in via email or IM or SMS was at least double the size of last year's CEC. In the first day alone, we had something like 900 messages. These came in during the sessions on Monday morning, the so-called General Sessions.

The Launch-attending folks were way more quiet (approx. 80 messages only, still most from Sun/CEC folks), so it seems, that these are diverse in their perception and the use of the internet. I will not comment further, conclusions are left to the reader here...

Matthias

tags: suncec2007