Monthly Archives: October 2008

future of the data center

Posted on October 16, 2008 by admin

This article from Ars Technica discusses a talk over the summer by Merrill Lynch’s chief technology architect, Jeffrey Birnbaum on “stateless cloud computing” – most concretely on distributed file systems. Birnbaum believes that one of the key foundational elements of … Continue reading →

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Operating system research – 16 years perspective

Posted on October 7, 2008 by admin

It’s somewhat funny and somewhat sad to read this thread on the old USENET. Starting out with Andy Tanenbaum’s proposed list of accepted truths (most of which I thought wrong at the time) GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS TRUE BY RESEARCHERS IN … Continue reading →

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Avaya’s bizzare business model

Posted on October 6, 2008 by admin

Years ago, we got some equipment from Avaya – not terrible, but not wonderful. A junior tech with no signature authority signed a contract with them that says in big letters on the top “until 2005″. In 2007 we got … Continue reading →

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