Technogory

I was reading a recent post about how IBM has now shipped it’s 10000th SAN Volume Controller (SVC). That is remarkable, and says a lot about the industry and the desire for virtualization solutions across all hardware. Server sprawl is the easy and most obvious expanding problem in a data center. But, what about the storage? Solution vendors lock customers into proprietary solutions, and homogeneous environments are difficult to configure and manage. IBM SVC makes that so much easier.

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I had the opportunity to attend Linux World this year. I attended a security discussion that was presented by Jay Beale of Intelguardians. It was a multi-part presentation and discussion of all things Linux. I took away a number of ideas that I think anyone who is providing Linux services to any company should take into account.

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Sleezo - what a name! That just draws all kinds of ideas of what is probably uploaded. This site is a no frills picture/image repository. There isn’t really any way to view the images uploaded, there are no accounts to create, they don’t know who you are. But you can upload any image you have access to.

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I recently starting playing around with Pipes - The Yahoo BETA of RSS mashing. Mashing is a way of aggregating many different sources of information into a single stream of data or information. In the case of Pipes, RSS is not the only thing you can mash!

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For those of you that are Linux supporters, argue that the Linux desktop numbers are not being reported correctly, and can’t understand why more of the public don’t embrace Linux - here’s your chance to participate.  The Desktop Linux (DTL) workgroup is holding their annual survey.

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