February 2003

[27-Feb-2003]
Storage Days:   HP's new Storage Provisioner software looks to be a perfect match for the way we allocate storage at work. (68 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[26-Feb-2003]
Flying to Orlando:   Jim flies to Orlando Florida to attend HP National Storage Days, a conference on SAN, NAS, and other things storage. (186 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[24-Feb-2003]
Bits and pieces:   A mate of mine wonders how I find time to keep this site updated. Two words: Movable Type. Thanks, Ben... (102 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[22-Feb-2003]
Oxymorons:   A new oxymoron. (10 words, 1 comments, 0 pings)

[18-Feb-2003]
DBM X01-04:   I have just released DBM X01-04. No functionality changes, just some input validation. Download it from the usual place. (19 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[16-Feb-2003]
Musical Chairs:   Today, we shut down a GS140, repartitioned our existing GS160, and rebooted the two node cluster within the GS160. Additionally... (64 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[10-Feb-2003]
A new machine:   We took delivery of most of a new GS160 Alphaserver today. (138 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[09-Feb-2003]
Core/Edge SAN:   This morning, I spent a few hours rearranging the switches in the SAN fabrics at work. (200 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[08-Feb-2003]
DBM X01-03:   I have modified DBM to allow you to select sequential reading to simulate data warehouse applications more accurately. (45 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

Access all areas:   An accessibility statement has been added to eight-cubed.com. Thanks are due to Mark Pilgrim's work in this area. (81 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[05-Feb-2003]
Accessibility:   I'm playing with accessibility features on the site at the moment. Originally, when I heard about the push for accessible... (173 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[02-Feb-2003]
DBM X01-02:   DBM X01-02 is available from the downloads page. This program is a basic disk benchmark for OpenVMS systems. (52 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

Benchmarking disk subsystems:   I'm struggling with plans to benchmark Symmetrix storage solutions from EMC and coming up with the code to do it. (134 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[01-Feb-2003]
Columbia:   Seven brave astronauts today paid the ultimate price for the advance of the human race. We will never forget them.... (63 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)