Prediction: Citrix will drop the open source Xen hypervisor for Hyper-V. The rest of the open source world drops Xen for KVM. - Lengthy speculation about the future of Xen now that Hyper-V is out. If this turns out to be correct, I think it leaves Sun in a particularly awkward spot, given that [...]
Am I the only one that hates VMware’s patch download site and its corresponding applet? (Maybe - I couldn’t find anyone complaining about it looking quickly on VMware’s message boards, which I found most odd.) I’ve never been able to get it to launch under Firefox, only under IE (even on the same [...]
NetApp Litigation - an update: Sun’s take on the NetApp/Sun lawsuit proceedings. “Over the last two months, the PTO has granted the first five of our reexamination requests, finding in all the cases that multiple ‘SNQP’ [substantial new question of patentability] exist for each patent (one request filed in June is still pending). These [...]
Daemonic Dispatches: Dissecting SimpleDB BoxUsage - Colin Percival takes a critical look at Amazon’s SimpleDB pricing scheme.
S3 data corruption: “We’ve isolated this issue to a single load balancer that was brought into service at 10:55pm PDT on Friday, 6/20. It was taken out of service at 11am PDT Sunday, 6/22. While it was in service it handled a small fraction of Amazon S3’s total requests in the US. [...]
The Register: Sun’s Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core - “Each socket is chewing through an insane 256 threads.” I do love a good rumor.
CloudStatus - Just-launched website for monitoring each Amazon Web Services component in more detail than Amazon gives you. Seen at O’Reilly Radar.
Blocks & Files: Now HP contributes HPC file system to open source - “HP has contributed its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community, meaning Linux.” It’s been a long time since I’ve used AdvFS (the last time I used Tru64 was in 2003 or so), but it [...]
Red Hat adopts KVM: what happens to Xen now? - I work in a VMware ESX shop right now (other than all those Solaris Zones and FreeBSD Jails and OpenVZ VEs, that is) - no Xen or KVM. However, given the serious pain in the butt that timekeeping is in Linux guests on ESX, [...]