Tiburon as a service. I’ll talk about this at some point, and describe what I mean, but I have to say that I’ve been blown away by the response to it from many places and customers. I’ve been working on making the API restful, and finally … finally … incorporating a noSQL DB on the back end to make the replication and other bits trivial. We are using MongoDB for this.

I like VirtualBox. Have for a long time. But it has some … well … interesting failure modes. Including some that have locked up my host machine. The problem for me is that I’ve got my Windows desktop environment for my normal desktop hosted there. And I need this every now and then. Today was the final straw. Working on a document about some of our updates in Word. I don’t like Word, but some of our partners use it, and its easier to use it than to fight the battle convincing them to use LibreOffice.

Two items. our friends at Virident are now part of WD. I am happy Kumar, Yatin and crew got a nice exit. I am not thrilled at where they landed. Virident joins STEC at WD. But as with STEC, this looks like this is on the HGST side of things, which appears to still be building separate and quality product. We will buy and ship HGST. Whiptail was acquired by Cisco.

The worlds first low latency drink to go with the next generation low latency cloud … the Scalable low latentini. Yes, its real …

We’ll be showing off 2 appliances, with a change of what we are showing/announcing on one due to something not being ready on the business side. The first one is our little 108 port siRouter box. Think ‘bloody fast NAT’ and SDN in general, you can run other virtual/bare metal apps atop it. The second will be a massive scale parallel SQL DB appliance. Usable for big data, hadoop like workloads, and other similar workloads more commonly used on other well known platforms.

Massive frustration on multiple fronts, and a few unwelcome surprises. I wish I had karate tonight, and fight night in particular. Lots to work off. I’ll have to be satisfied with weight training tomorrow, and a nice long dog walk tonight.

This one was almost obvious, it was simply a matter of “when”. Microsoft is trying to put some wood behind its Mobile OS arrow. No one seems to want it, save for the 41MP camera “phone”. In the big picture, Microsoft saw the beginning of an erosion of its market power recently, as more people opted for mobile platforms, and fewer opted for PCs and laptops. There is a convenience and cost play going on at the same time.

24 bay system, big RAID6. Reads/write 4x RAM size. [root@dv4-3 ~]# df -h /data Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md2 55T 65G 55T 1% /data ... WRITE: io=65505MB, aggrb=1580.2MB/s, minb=1580.2MB/s, maxb=1580.2MB/s, mint=41433msec, maxt=41433msec READ: io=65505MB, aggrb=2429.4MB/s, minb=2429.4MB/s, maxb=2429.4MB/s, mint=26964msec, maxt=26964msec

Over at IEEE Spectrum, there is a wonderful article that delves into the latest phase of the alleged massive need for more STEM workers. This is a topic I’ve covered a number of times, here, here, here, and here. TL;DR version for newbies: If someone is trying to sell you on this to get you to decide to go get an STEM degree, then there’s a pretty good probability you are in the process of being deceived.

Just insanely busy, more so than usual. We are getting close to double digits in employees in the day job. I suspect we’ll cross this in September/October. More news soon, including some wonderful new partners, products, and business bits. I won’t say where at this moment, but you can start searching around for the SI logo on a few folks sites …