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Tuesday Dec 25, 2007
A Year of YouTube
On December 26, 2006 I posted my first video to YouTube. It was a fairly pointless demonstration to prove I could do it, and I posted some instructions on how to get started. It's fairly shocking over 1,000 have people watched that first little clip so far. Over the course of the year, I found bits of time to put together more and more sophisticated videos. Some of my favorites are:
One of the most fun parts of my year of video blogging wasn't a video at all. In June I made a posting where I encouraged some of the writers at Sun to give up their pens and pick up their cameras (at least for a while). As you can see from the comments on that posting I ruffled a few feathers. In fact this lead to a series of discussions on others blogs. While the writers haven't given up the written word, I'm pretty pleased to see more of them embracing new media concepts like blogs and videos. I hope to see more of that in 2008! Posted at 08:28PM Dec 25, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in New Media |
Thursday Dec 20, 2007
Track Your MS-Windows Systems
Just a few weeks after we announced that Service Tags were available for Linux, I'm really pleased to let you know you can also now get them for Windows too! This means you can now use the Sun Inventory service to track, organize and report on just about any x86 or SPARC server running all the major operating systems. Go on over to Sun Inventory and click on the Download Service Tags link to get your Windows Service Tags (or Solaris and Linux too!). Posted at 11:41PM Dec 20, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in DataCenter | Comments[2]
Tuesday Dec 11, 2007
First Ops Center Code Goes Open Source
Last week we announced some key dates for Sun xVM Ops Center. We announced that we plan to ship the first version of Ops Center in January, but we won't be waiting until then to start sharing the core technology. A major differentiator for the xVM effort is that it will all be open source, and we've announced that the Ops Center management code will be available under the General Public License (GPL) v3 through the new Open xVM community. At the core of Ops Center is some technology called the Common Agent Container (CAC). On Monday, we've posted the source code to this key technology. You can go over to java.net and check it out! CAC offers a simple way to unify a sea of management protocols through JMX. You can read more about CAC here. Expect to see more Ops Center code coming to Open xVM over the first months of 2008! Posted at 10:53AM Dec 11, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in Virtualization |
Thursday Dec 06, 2007
Getting Started with the xVM Hypervisor
Want to get started playing with the xVM hypervisor on x86? It's available in recent OpenSolaris builds. Go here for details on how to get started. Posted at 05:00AM Dec 06, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in Virtualization | Comments[1]
Tuesday Dec 04, 2007
Presenting xVM Ops Center
Today we announced the planned availability date and pricing for Sun xVM Ops Center. There are several new resources available you can check out, as well as some press coverage.
Lastly, the marketing folks asked me to tape a short intro to the product. I think I like this one better than the one I recently did for Sun MC. What do you think? Also, just a reminder that I'll be at the Future of Virtualization conference tomorrow in LA (I'm sitting at the airport right now). I hope to see some of you there. Posted at 03:32PM Dec 04, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in Virtualization | Comments[1] Tracking Linux Installations
Earlier this year I announced that Sun was starting to add network discovery protocols to all of it's products. Since then, we've added our Service Tag technology to products like Solaris, Sun MC, Java Enterprise System and the new T5120 Cool Threads server. Shortly after announcing this technology, we made available our free inventory service that customers can use to track their IT assets. Many of Sun's largest customers have started to adopt the tool, and in fact, they've been asking us if they can use it to track non-Sun assets. Who are we to say no to our best customers? To that end, we've just released service tags for Linux, so you can track your RedHat, SuSE, Debian and Ubuntu linux operating systems. You can download the new Linux tags (along with new revisions of the Solaris 8, 9 and 10 tags) from the Sun Download center. Just go to https://sunconnection.sun.com/inventory/ and click the button marked Download Service Tags. Have fun! Posted at 05:00AM Dec 04, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in DataCenter |
Monday Dec 03, 2007
Sun Maps the Datacenter of the Future
Arthur Cole over at IT Business Edge has an interesting blog entry discussing his ideas how Sun xVM (along with BlackBox and Niaraga 2) fit into Sun's plans for the next generation datacenter. I hadn't heard the part about the Japanese coal mine yet. :-) Posted at 10:00PM Dec 03, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in Virtualization | IBM Endorses Sun xVM
So, we've known for a while that IBM is interested in Solaris, but now they've announced that they're also endorsing Sun xVM. This means we now have IBM, Microsoft, Redhat, Intel and AMD have announced their support for our new virtualization and management strategy. We're soon going to start building infrastructure over at Open xVM to get even more partners involved. Stay tuned for details on that.
Posted at 05:00AM Dec 03, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in Virtualization | Comments[2]
Sunday Dec 02, 2007
We're Hiring: Work on xVM
Are you interested in working on the coolest, virtualization and data center automation tools anywhere? Well, Sun is hiring. We have a number of openings now with more coming soon.
We currently have openings in the San Francisco bay area and in Colorado. You can check out a constantly updated list of jobs related to xVM here. Come join the team, this is one of the hottest projects at Sun! Posted at 02:43PM Dec 02, 2007 by Stephen Wilson in Virtualization | |
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