Andy B: On new HPC, Galaxy and such

Galaxy 2, Andromeda...lots of stuff I can't talk abou because I am not sure which bits are public...however cool, massive performance enhancements with technology updates.

In short thought, higher density, smaller form factor. We should see be seeing more cool new things inside the next year or so.
(This is probably a forward looking statement. There is some big legal statement about that, so I wouldn't buy any stock based on my particular interpretation of what I am hearing)

TiTECH Facts: From hardware delivery to benchmark 30 days #7 on the top 500.

New NSF Grid has a basic overview that looks similar to the Sun Grid design (in a very high level block diagram slide kind of way)

Q: Why FBDIMMs
A: In the end that may be a mistake.

SMS comment: Andy B speaks without any latency. When will he take a breath? What clock speed is he on? He should look at decaf!
Big laughs and clapping all around.

Dan and guy I don't know on sight...no intro slide(I bet you I should know who he is): Future

Guy I don't Know:

Next -- SOA, Grid, Dynamic Inf., Web 2.0 (interactive/parcipitory)

Why --
Smaller interfaces, cellphones, set tops, etc.

Examples --
Grey Album -> EMI supression -> EMI notices success -> Hires DJ Dangermounse -> Wins Producer of the Year for Gorillaz' Demon Days

What --
Sell solutions

My Interpretation:

New flexible business models, we don't know what the next new big organic growth thing will be.
Flexibility to adapt to provide for the next thing without knowing what it is now.

(His name is Jim...but only becuase Dan said "Thanks Jim")

Dan: Internal Resources

People have been saying that we don't know what all of the available communities are to let people help themselves.
Dan went into a bit on Customer Engineering Programs

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David: Storage
Sun Storage Positioning, only Sun and IBM have end to end storage solutions.
Interesting point: Tape is the most energy efficient long term storage method.
T10000 has something like 70 patents and uses RFID in the media...sweet

Rich Green: Software
We support more applications than any other platform, maybe not all of the ones that we yet want to support.

The future is selling solutions not just pieces of software.
Software can be the lead to hardware sales, or hardware can be the lead to software sales.

The Sun Developer Network has grown to some millions of members from some smaller number of members...
(I strive for absolute accuracy)

Sun UCE...(I hate that name) Unsolicited Commercial Enterprise == SPAM (Rich is not fond of it either)
We are not selling the Sun SPAM solution

Steve Wilson: UCE(Aduva demo)
Thankfully it appears that Steve has practiced his demo before and he has access to all the devices he needs to see to make it work.

Running a security patch analysis, and software rollback.

(Back to Rich)

Questions from the Audience:
Q: When will we have acroread for x64?
A: I'll talk to Johnny L.

Peter Weber and Ian White: Sun Services

Peter:
So far, a "What is Managed Operations" type message, thankfully not actually the same content as "What is Managed Operations"

Sun Services is not just Sun Support
~1.5B$ of Sun Services revenue is not Support Services

We have a vision, mission and strategy that I should know without needing the slide to still be up, but it appears that I don't.

Gave the example of TWIi and The Open, with a monitoring management and delivery solution designed with Sun Services (Managed Operations/SevenSpace). (Or the British Open for us Americans)
The TWIi website is the third busiest sports web site in the world for four days.

I sent a message to the SMS number asking Peter is he will be back in VA on Thursday to go for our weekly bike ride.
As usual it probably won't make it to the screen...unless I have amused the people who are filtering the input.

Ian:
Mission: Deliver customer satisfaction profitably through the architecture, implementation and management of IT infrastructure.
Strategy: Deliver services innovation (and some stuff)

Managed Operations: can support more systems at a lower cost with higher value.

Or to quote myself: Managed Operations drives operational efficiency through process automation and economy of scale.
(Which would have been really cool if he had just quoted me, but not shocking that he didn't)

We are pushing a re-inventment in workforce development (Bigger Training Budget?)

Next Goal: CFI 3.0

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C-'s brother was shot by a sniper today in Iraq.

Fortunately he is OK.

The shot hit the buckle of his armor and disintegrated, sending shrapnel into his face.
Fortunately safety goggles work and the damage is apparently not too bad.

Otherwise a fraction of an inch difference and he would be dead.
Apparently there have been number of attempts recently and he is the least hurt of the survivors.

Network Scale Visualized Modular Computing

DI is a way to do and manage netowkr-scale architecture for modular, horizontal services with virtualization.

Rapid and frequent code updates are wanted/needed/required.
Rolling changes, easy fail-back.

Moving to dynamic container based deployment allows very safe deployment and rollback.
Create a container, deploy to container, point to container, fail back/destroy old container.

It looks cool, dynamic allocation and consolidation.

The process in general looks like the individual SPS steps could be glued together into one larger fire and forget action.

Thoughts:
It is hard to do a demo that requires access to a hard to reach network (SWAN).
Might have benefited from some screen shots for the process that could have failed.

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There was a high degree of overlap information as Managed Storage is part of Managed Operations.
Effectively all Managed Operations presentations contain a this is Managed Operations Section.

Of note the presentation successfully crashed StarOffice 4-5 times

What I learned in broad strokes:

We support extensive backup and Restore SLAs.
A wider range of storage devices than I knew about.

Quite informational all in all.

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