Why we need Internet Exchange Points

Now updated: Nice video about Internet Exchanges Points (IXPs) like BCIX:

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Solaris 10 U8 10/09 Release

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.

Ups, ich bin im Fernsehen

aber seht selbst:

Link: Interview_The_Unbelievable_Machine

Tour the Sun Cloud Datacenter

Nice video about the Sun Cloud Datacenter at SuperNAP:

Colocation in Berlin

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:

Area Gradestrasse:

Area Alboinkontor:

Kitzingstrasse:

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.

Climb Gasometer Berlin Schöneberg

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.

Gasometer Berlin 2009

CloudCamp Berlin 2009 is coming

CloudCamp Berlin Logo
CloudCamp Berlin 2009 has still free seats, register here, it’s free.

and the coolest Datacenter is

in Stockholm/Sweden, and of course with very nice Admins, have a look:

Google Datacenter Video

Quite interesting to see more details about one of the Google Datacenters:

Swedish Internet Traffic

As you can see at netnods public traffic stats, Swedish peering traffic in April 2009 is only the half of the peering traffic by the end of March 2009. Traffic dropped from about 190Gbit/s to 90Gbit/s. This is because of the implementation of “Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, IPRED” in Sweden.

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