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| Video: Cloud Computing Power Panel Live from Times Square |
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May 04 2009 - SYSCON TV
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| Contributors: Werner Vogels , Hal Stern & John Engates | |
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The panel includes Werner Vogels from Amazon.com, John Engates from Rackspace, Rod Fonticella from Booze Allen Hamilton and Hal Stern from Sun Microsystems. |
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| Podcast: APIs for Sun's Cloud |
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April 06 2009
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Sun Microsystems is open sourcing its Cloud Computing APIs. , Sun's VP of Global Systems Engineering, Hal Stern talks to Distinguished Engineer Tim Bray about this exciting new wave of technology. |
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| Podcast: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems |
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November 14 2008
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Sun's VP of Global Systems Engineering, Hal Stern, and Distinguished Engineer - Sun Fishworks, Mike Shapiro, discuss the innovative technologies behind the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, the industry's first Open Storage appliances with breakthrough speed, savings, and scale. |
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| Podcast: An Interview with Hal Stern of Sun Microsystems |
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October 12 2007
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John C Havens talks to Hal Stern, Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering at Sun Microsystems. |
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| Hal Stern: The Morning Snowman Hal Stern's thoughts on software, services, technology, and lots of data. |
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| March 31 2010 |
| After moving most of the non-work related content over to my personal blog, I've decided to consolidate three different persona into one place: Snowman On Fire, the alter alter-ego of the Morning Snowman.
I've found that with blog entries being posted as Facebook notes, tweets announcing new blog posts, and multiple blogs, I have not been writing nearly enough, have fractured the viewing/reading audience ... read more >> |
| February 12 2010 |
| During the first ever America's Cup race, then a race around the Isle of Wight, the entry from the "colonies" (named, appropriately, "America") won by a rather large margin. Sailor's yarns being what they are, the story goes that the
lookout at the finish line announced that the boats were within sight. "Who is first?" asked the Queen, with "America"
as the answer. "Who is second?" was a reasonable followup question.
"There is no second." ... read more >> |
| February 07 2010 |
| Every year about this time, I host some undergraduate engineering students for a two-day whirlwind tour
with customers, partners and employees in New York City. It gives the students a chance to see
where an engineering degree can take them, and to discover what's different between short-term
college projects and complex real-world product engineering. It gives me an early glimpse
of the current engineering social context and lets me what techn ... read more >> |
| January 29 2010 |
| Life is a series of transitions; I think that if we're expecting things to be
neat and clean we're focusing too much on the nodes in our graphs and not enough on the
edges that connect them. Life imitates a Markov chain, with all of the uncertainty
and chaos implied.
To quote the late, great hockey writer Jack Falla:
What happened is done.
The next shot you face is the most important.
Play the game if you want to improve. ... read more >> |
| January 27 2010 |
| I'm in the process of moving all non-work related blog content off of blogs.sun.com and into the snowman's own front lawn. Music, movies,
books, sports, travelogues and comments about social networks will go there
and join other semi-technical, semi-literate commentary. ... read more >> |
| January 14 2010 |
| Local tragedies have a way of uniting us globally. I was first made
aware of this when Roberto Clemente, much beloved Pittsburgh
Pirate, was killed in a post-earthquake aid and goodwill ambassador role
in his native Nicaragua. All of baseball mourned #21, who was just
responding through the goodness of his heart.
This week's disaster in Haiti calls for the same
global response. Thanks to fellow Tiger Melinda Millberg for the following
list ... read more >> |
| January 04 2010 |
| Just before the holiday break, I sat down with Lisa Noordegraf, a performance engineer in Sun's Performance Applications Engineering team, to talk about flash memory and how it's moving from the consumer space into the enterprise. Lisa and I cover where you should - and shouldn't - think of using flash memory, how you drive the rel ... read more >> |
| January 03 2010 |
| It's
that
time
of year
again. And what a long, strange trip of a year
it's been. Some thoughts from 2009:
Work moment.Trip to In ... read more >> |
| December 24 2009 |
| I posted this to my sports blog earlier in the week, but wanted to give it
wider recognition as it kind of sums up my holiday season feelings.
The holiday season is now in full tilt, with last minute shopping and shipping, final touches to decorations, parties, and either dread or hopeful expectations of time with our families. My own interpretation of this feeling is that captured in the shehecheya ... read more >> |
| December 23 2009 |
| Went to see Avatar last night, on the flat silver screen instead of the 3-D version. In a word, it was spectacular. In other words, it was an homage, but not in the Dances With Wolves simile that seems to be popular.
Warning: Mild spoilers ahead.
Visually, Avatar was quite simply the best movie I've seen. Ever. For once, the movie wasn't
about the special effects or how many things or people exploded with l ... read more >> |
| December 15 2009 |
| Had an interesting Facebook repartee with a purely online friend -- never met her in person, but
I know her through her family. Her late uncle was a big influence in my life. She was lamenting
her family fighting it out in public, and I offered the following, as it seems families and family
fights are in season:
The best we can do this time of year is sit down with
a huge plate of food, and recognize that we're not
perfect, that families are ... read more >> |
| December 15 2009 |
| Part two of my early December trip took to me Shefayyim, Israel,
for the IGT 2009 World Cloud Computing Summit. I'll admit to
being biased when visiting Israel for technology reasons, because
the so much in the country convolves the best of hard-charging technologists,
the "pioneer spirit" (what Americans would call entr ... read more >> |
| December 15 2009 |
| I've been trying to intersect a variety of conversations lately -- a Wikipedia board member on
the editing and document model for his work; our SunSpace engineers in terms of
the value of community equity; and editing work with two co-authors
on a book about WordPress (an
interesting task given the existence of the WordPress Codex.
In each case, the key question is "How do we know we're converging or i ... read more >> |
| September 23 2009 |
| Much is written about equity, capital and networking, particularly when prefaced with "social" to ascribe
some value to sites such as Facebook, Yahoo or Twitter. Conflating these terms reduces their utility in
describing the problem space.
Equity is a measure of value. Tells you how much something is worth, net net of whatever detracting, devaluing
or impairing items surround it. Not just equity in the stockholder sense, but brand equity, p ... read more >> |
| August 29 2009 |
| There are a few groups that I grew up listening to but never had the chance to see live; with reunion
tours and better medicine, I've been able to catch Yes, Genesis, Rush, and others live. But I have always
longed to hear Renaissance, with Annie Haslam, in a small venue, with high-end sound.
Today Renaissance 2009 announced a tour starting in Pennsylvania (near Haslam's Bucks County home ... read more >> |
| August 28 2009 |
| Glenn Brunette is a Distinguished Engineer
and leading security practitioner at Sun. He and I sat down (virtually) to talk about
the
Immutable Service Container
project, a set of tools designed to bridge OS minimization, virtualization, and security monitoring
mechanisms. An increasing number of customers are thinking abo ... read more >> |
| August 09 2009 |
| Latest Innovating@Sun podcast is up,
featuring a discussion with John Jullion-Ceccarelli (Senior Engineering Manager
of the NetBeans team) centered around
NetBeans in a multi-cultural world.
Years ago, it felt like there were strong forces for convergence around languages,
tools, and repositories. Sun w ... read more >> |
| July 23 2009 |
| I'll admit to a certain vanity with Facebook: I've been trying to build an audience for my personal blog, using a Facebook page to import blog entries and inviting just about everyone who's a friend to follow the page. Facebook very nicely provides "insights" (analytics) on interactions with the page - number of comments, ratings, and other feedback.
Today I noticed that the "Cayman Islands" were the top country for interaction with my page. ... read more >> |
| June 28 2009 |
| Last Wednesday's opening session at the
SIFMA technology management show covered
three aspects of data center evolution in increasing order of abstraction: AMQP
as a primary data management tool, the future of the NYSE data center as a
virtual trading floor, and cloud computing (given by yours truly) as an incentive
for building more reliable and scalable applications.
Carl ... read more >> |
| June 19 2009 |
| I adore Randall Munroe's xkcd comic, mostly for the math jokes. I define
"geek" as someone who uses epsilon in a sentence, so anything that references irrational number or
NP-completeness is good for several laughs.
And here I thought I was the only one who made Erdos number jokes. Unfortunately, Erdos number
theorists would dispute ... read more >> |
| June 06 2009 |
| Cory Doctorow was kind enough to give me an advanced reader's copy of his upcoming book Makers, which I read in about three sittings. Granted, I'm a Cory
fanboy, and I devour his writings like Pop-Tarts (often simultaneously), but this one is, in my
slightly biased opinion, his best y ... read more >> |
| May 28 2009 |
| I love when customers play "stump the geek" and ask really insightful, serious questions. It's
partly what makes being a systems engineer at Sun challenging and fun (and yes, I consider myself
an SE within my own group, but I'll pass on the is-a has-a polymorphism jokes, thank you). Yesterday's
question scored an 8 for style and 9 for terseness (usually a difficult combination to execute):
What are the top developer problems we haven't run ... read more >> |
| May 07 2009 |
| Sys-Con.TV has posted the video of our "Cloud Computing
Round Table" held on March 29 in Times Square. It was a fun exchange with a
lot of sharp dialogue and discussion about reliability, application fit and function,
and whether or not amazon.com is going to eat your data center. Of course,
having amazon.com CTO Werner ... read more >> |
| May 05 2009 |
| Had breakfast with a friend this morning who commented on the state of the economy in and
around our neighborhood by saying that "there are many free agents available." He wasn't
talking about the Yankees, Mets, Devils, Rangers, Knicks, Nets, or any other sports franchise
that funnels ticket revenue into the hands of free agent players who haven't delivered
a local championship since 2003 (Devils, Stanley Cup). His perception was that with
man ... read more >> |
| April 27 2009 |
| A break from the emerging markets travelogue.
A few weeks ago I vowed to spend at least a little time each day helping people I know who have
been affected by the current economy find new job opportunities. The local economy is nasty;
I realized that half (literally) of my close friends are technically unemployed. Through Facebook,
LinkedIn, Twitter and email, I've been trying to connect people, and along the way I discovered
Dave and Deb ... read more >> |
| April 20 2009 |
| Back into something resembling a chronological sequence: blogging from the front row
of the ITC Window hotel meeting room, where we'll host the Bengaluru Sun employee
Town Hall later this morning. I arrived in Bengaluru after a semi-redeye that left
Johannesburg and deposited me into Mumbai airport a few minutes after midnight.
After a transfer and an early (3:30 am early) flight, I found myself in the new
Bangalore airport. This is my firs ... read more >> |
| April 20 2009 |
| It's so rare for me to have an "off day" while traveling on business that I'm
remarkably lazy about preparing an itinerary. My usual plan includes: find
some entertainment in a local casino and/or Hard Rock Cafe, if they exist (I'm a creature of habit);
look for local Jewish historical culture (I've been to the synagogue in
Shanghai); explore a museum with unique local significance.
I wasn't mentally prepared for my trip to the ... read more >> |
| April 20 2009 |
| Despite my luggage trailing me by twelve hours, the Johannesburg
leg of the trip got off to a good start. My hotel was adjacent to a casino,
and where there's a casino there's usually a men's clothing store amidst
other shopping adventures. Sure enough, I arrived at the door of
a popular South African menswear store two minutes after closing time.
But the store staff let me in, I bought the only thing that fit me (a cotton
sweater), and was set ... read more >> |
| April 17 2009 |
| Tim Bray and I sat down (albeit 2,600 miles apart) to talk about the
Sun Cloud APIs
in all of their RESTful grace. We got into why a Creative Commons license
makes sense for an API, why the top-level API set is so small, how and
why a cloud deployer might want to expand the APIs, and what lessons
Tim learned from slogging through more developer documentation than
is considered healthy ... read more >> |
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