AS we had no Barcamp any more in Berlin since 2008, I’m glad to see that there’s another CloudCamp this year. This time it’s in the BCC at Alexanderplatz, famous for the CCC Congress between Christmas and New Year’s Eve each year. See you there, it’s free !
It happened on Friday the 13th, August, 2010: OpenSolaris is dead, Oracle stopped the distro as well as the source code pushes to the repository. Read the full internal announcement, which leaked into the wild in the OpenSolaris mailinglist. What does this mean: No OpenSolaris 2010.05 or other updates will appear, you can buy Oracle Solaris 11 in 2011.
Further readings:
Auf chaosradio.ccc.de gibt es einen netten Podcast mit Elisa Jasinska (AMS-IX) und Christian Kaufmann (Akamai) zum Thema Peering, Transit, Internet Exchanges, AS, BGP4 und all das, was das Internet antreibt. Akamai ist übrigens derzeit der einzige CDN Anbieter, der kostenfrei am Berliner Internet Exchange (BCIX) mit anderen ISPs Daten austauscht. Fragt euren Provider, ob er schon am BCIX mit Akamai peert, damit auch Ihr die möglichst kleinste Antwortszeit auf die Webseiten der Kunden von Akamai wie apple.com, myspace.com, mtv.com, maps.nokia.com, tagesschau.de usw. von Berlin aus bekommt.
Habt Spaß bei zwei Stunden Chaosradio mit Elisa und Christian!
Links:
Now updated: Nice video about Internet Exchanges Points (IXPs) like BCIX:
And five months later, another Solaris 10 release, with some very nice ZFS enhancements. You can download and use Solaris 10 U8 10/09 for free.
- System Administration Enhancements
- Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Solaris OS
- pcitool Utility
- ZFS Features and Changes
- ZFS and Flash installation support
- Setting ZFS user and group quotas
- Using ZFS ACL pass through inheritance for execute permission
- Using cache devices in your ZFS storage pool
- ZFS property enhancements (like properties to control the behavior of the ARC and the L2ARC
- ZFS log device recovery
- ZFS ACL Sets
- nss_ldap shadowAccount Support
- Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0 Patch Set 6
- Installation Enhancements
- Turbo-Charging SVR4 Packaging
- System Resources Enhancements
- Zones Parallel Patching
- PVIO Drivers in Solaris 10 Guest Domains
- Device Management Enhancements
- iSCSI Initiator SMF Service
- LSI 6180 Controller Support in Solaris MPxIO
- System Performance Enhancements
- Callout Subsystem Scalability
- Driver Enhancements
- Driver for LSI MPT 2.0-Compliant SAS2.0 Controllers
- x86: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
- x86: Interrupt Remapping Support for Intel Vt-d
- x86: SATA Tape Devices Supported by the AHCI Driver
- Sun StorageTek 6Gb/s SAS PCIe RAID HBA Driver
- Intel 82599 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
- Intel 82598 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
- Freeware Enhancements
- NTP Version 4.2.5
- PostgreSQL 8.1.17, 8.2.13, and 8.3.7
- Samba 3.0.35
Also, some features were removed within this Solaris 10 release.
aber seht selbst:
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At Euro-IX Meeting in Prague, there were a couple of presentations and discussions about Datacenters and Colocations. I was asked, which colocation providers are available in Berlin today, and here’s my list for you:
Area Lützowstrasse:
- I/P/B/ Carrier Colo (BCIX Peering Switch Location)
- DNS:NET Colocation
- I.T.E.N.O.S. Colocation
Area Gradestrasse:
Area Alboinkontor:
Kitzingstrasse:
- Global Crossing Colocation
And the latest and biggest Data Center in Berlin:
There are a couple of more, but smaller Colos in Berlin where I’ve no details about. Please let me know, and I’ll add them in this article.
If you need an offer for Colo or Rackspace in Berlin, please let me know, also.
Starting from April 2009 until maybe October 2009 you can climb the 456 gasometers stairs up to the roof of Berlin. With about 30 Euro Ticket fee, it’s not that cheap, but still worth visting the Gasometer in Berlin Schöneberg. If 78m are to high for you or you don’t have the chance to visit Berlin, you can enjoy my pictures with flickr slideshow.
CloudCamp Berlin 2009 has still free seats, register here, it’s free.
in Stockholm/Sweden, and of course with very nice Admins, have a look:
