X4500 ZFS and iSCSI Performance Characteristics - "Benchmarks are useful in many ways, they are particularly effective when you wish to validate an architectural design. In this case a SUN X4500 as an iSCSI target and VMware ESX 3.5 servers with QLA4050c initiators. This benchmark is not a definitive measure of what the architectural maximums are for the X4500 or the other components of the architecture, its a validation that the whole system performs as expected under the context of its current configuration..." - Ubiquitous Talk

OpenSolaris Flying with the FAA - Jim Grisanzio points us to an eWeek article on How the FAA Is Bringing Its Air Traffic Systems into the 21st Century

Builds are too slow... - "Okay, I've got a brand new Sun Fire X4150 Server and it is geeked out with processors and memory. When I installed SUNWonbld, it said that I should use 36 for dmake concurrency. So, let's set our .make.files and let a build rip." - first in a busy series from Tom Haynes

OpenSolaris Conference in France - "There will be an OpenSolaris conference in Toulouse, France on Oct 13th. In the morning, there will be sessions on some of the key technologies in OpenSolaris in French, and the afternoon will be dedicated to the English-speaking international OpenSolaris community as representatives from four OpenSolaris distributions talk about the technologies in their distros..." - Jim Grisanzio (wish I could be there to film... - D')