Note: in advance, this is not a slam on the company I will mention. I actually agree with their migration concept, even if I disagree with the details. In the early days of their life, Joyent made a lifetime offer for goods and services. These were pretty reasonable offerings, and the hook of How long is it good for? As long as we exist. As in … forever. But what does “forever” actually mean?

We knew that TMS was looking for a buyer. And IBM is a very intelligently run company, they see how the technologies are changing. IBM has grabbed TMS. This alters a bunch of playing fields. There are a shrinking pool of players out there available. Virident, STEC, and a few others. OCZ is occasionally rumored to be talking to Seagate and others. With TMS, IBM can now offer TMS metadata servers for GPFS, integrated.

TCS is arguably one of the more successful services groups out there. Cloud computing naturally fits into this, as cloud is AAS (As A Service). CRL has a localized bit of expertise in Pune, as well as customers pretty widely spread out. We’ve worked with them in the past, they have some of our gear. Dr. Vipin Chaudhary, CEO of CRL is a good friend and business partner going back a ways.

Still deciding what to bring … at least one thing new (we have a number). Will have at least one partner in the booth, possibly more. Will be right by the coffee !!!! I can hook an IV straight from there … Very excited! More info soon.

Took off work early to take family (and Captain!) to see Allison Schmitt at Canton’s Heritage Park. For those who don’t know, Allison won 3 gold medals, a silver, and a bronze at the 2012 Olympics in London. We watched 2 of her races, most of Ryan Lochte’s, Michael Phelps, and as many of the swimming contests as NBC broadcast (sadly not enough). My wife and I enjoyed the races, and, as it turns out, so did my daughter.

Our market is often inundated with buzzwords. And fads sweep through organizations looking for silver bullets to their very hard problems. Some of these problems are self-inflicted … some are as a result of growth, or needed infrastructure change. One of the biggest problems with HPC (and to a degree, storage) has been the high up-front costs to build what you need. You have to lay down capital to buy something, which may or may not have an ROI adequate to pay for it.

Captain is a rescue dog from the CHAINED Inc. organization. He is the dog on the right at 1:21. His sister is the dog on the left of that frame. [ ](/images/captain.jpg) Captain is a 9 month old or so yellow lab. He was badly abused. He has major trust issues, and I don’t blame him for this. It will take time to learn to trust. He’s been with us 5 days now, and loves my wife and daughter.

This is epic. As originally seen on @mndoci ’s twitter stream. Short version: Those who don’t have a clue, really … REALLY … shouldn’t write lengthy journal articles about what they don’t have a clue about. Lest they get smacked down. Like this. For some reason, its an article of faith for many people, who largely do not understand why, that the big drug companies are EEEEVVIIIILLL (hope I used enough I’s there).

Inspired by this article. Back in the dim and distant past, when I started graduate school … no before that … I had something of an … naive … world and economic view. This view had me believing that newly minted physics Ph.D. types would be able to find a nice tenure track relatively easily after a short postdoc. From there to professional career bliss. Do research, write grants, publish, teach.

This one was actually much harder to discern that it was a hack attempt until I looked at the payload in an editor. Never EVER under any circumstances read HTML mail from a source you don’t trust … and I am getting ready to say, from anyone. Here is a portion of the payload: `