Saturday, June 9, 2007

A Little Bit of Everything

- Well, here's what a DR rookie failure looks like on a grand scale. Once again, your tax dollars at work !!

- Will you be the first one on your block with one of these? User interface design beyond the desktop metaphor.

- NetApp's V-Series Business Unit (VBU) has qualified 3PAR's InServ against V-Series code.

- Sanjay from NetApp joins the blogosphere (Databases on NetApp)

- Very savvy IT team this week quizzed me about Windows Server I/O performance between drive letters vs. volume mount points (BTW -- no difference, since VMPs are just filters that live in kernel mode); Even Microsoft and various storage vendors do performance benchmarking with volume mount points (mainly, Exchange & SQL Servers). Did you know that the IIS Team actually designed "HTTP.sys" as a kernel-mode driver in 2k3 and 2k8 Server for high-perfomance web hosting?

- Yes, watching last evening's STS-117 launch on HDNet (1080i on my Mitsubishi 62" DLP) is still amazing (last September's STS-115 launch was just a beautiful)

Happy Weekend !!