GUUG FFG 2008
Last week my workmate Matthias and myself held a presentation about our personal view of next generation datacenter infrastructures at the GUUG FFG 2008. For those of you, who don't know the meaning of GUUG and FFG, here is a short annotation of these two abbreviations:
- GUUG stands for German Unix User Group and is a consortium of german unix users
- FFG stands for Frühjahrsfachgespräch (in english: spring expert talk)
The main reason for doing that presention at the FFG was to show the attendees possible future datacenter architectures concerning server virtualization and unified network approaches. Well, we know that our approach is not an "one-size-fits-all" solution. But it is an approuch our customer just loved, because we meet most there requirements.
We had some pretty interesting conversations after the presentation with some attendees. Most of them like the idea behind it:
- no local disks
- no dedicated network for storage access
- virtualization of Solaris and Linux based services
- virtualization of network entities (eg. Routers, Firewalls, Loadbalancer)
But there was also some other (critical) statements about our presentation. One of them was an article of a german publication called Linux Magazin (you can read it here - in german).
To be clear:
I love to
- get feedback on things I do
- get constructive criticism
- get controversial views
So why do I write this blog entry? Because I don't like the way the author of this article is giving us feedback. Just writing an article on a paper without giving us a chance to make things clear is not the way we are working. Giving us comments and feedback right after the presentation would be a much better way from my point of view.
Anyway. If you like to give us feedback on that presentation, feel free and drop me a comment.
Posted at 03:00PM Mrz 20, 2008 by Tobias Esser in xVM | Kommentare[0]