(Another) Win for Open Storage... "Wikimedia has chosen Sun's Open Storage platforms over proprietary alternatives, to help manage their evolution to rich media - bringing high quality video and time based content to their more than 250,000,000 users globally. That's a big audience waiting to upload - and interact with - high quality content..." - Jonathan

See Walter Moriconi's blog for links to several useful articles (and to congratulate him on a new family member!).

OpenSolaris Repository Gets a Makeover… "Dan mailed a heads up to pkg-discuss list today about the makeover that has now been delivered to pkg.opensolaris.org, introducing a couple of great changes..." - Glynn Foster

Casting the shadow of the Hybrid Storage Pool - " The debate, calmly waged, on the best use of flash in the enterprise can be summarized as whether flash should be a replacement for disk, acting as primary storage, or it should be regarded as a new, and complementary tier in the storage hierarchy, acting as a massive read cache..." - Adam Leventhal

Celeste - what is it? - "...Celeste is essentially a peer-to-peer storage system. It is highly-available and scalable due to it's peer-to-peer nature. It's often compared to Honeycomb, but there are some substantial differences..." - Peter Buckingham