Aspera is a company specialised in providing high speed, low-latency software solutions for data transfer.
Their flagship product is FASP, a lightweight,resilient protocol implemented at Application Level that is a replacement technology for TCP-based transfers (the likes of FTP, HTTP).
The nice thing is that it actually works! FASP is used mainly in the video industry...
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Sometimes you just want to prove yourself it might work. Just that.
While configuring two Solaris nodes to build a sort of a cluster I figured out how to avoid the unbearably slow Sol10 install: my imaginative solution is:
create a ZFS mirrored pool on two identical disks on the “golden” node.
Resilver the pool and install...
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Great news.
Kurt Claeys, the Cloud Computing expert and evangelizer at Ordina Belgium, founded AZUG: Azure User Group.
Needless to say: their focus will be the Microsoft Azure platform and .NET Services. First public meeting is planned for September 2009, I will be there, count on it.
Interested? then send a mail to the board of the...
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Just when you think you know everything..
For a project involving ASE I refurbished two SUN Ultra 100 by swapping the original anemic disk with a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 (Ultra ATA, 80Gb).
Solaris 10U7 installed, full ZFS, headless (serial terminal)
Everything played fairly good. I went off for a while and, when back, I found this on...
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Some of the pictures I took at CCamp in Paris 11th June 2009.
I expected it to be good and, indeed, it was. Deave Nielsen is quite a character when he moderates the Camps!
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KAUKANA is born and his father (me) is very proud.
Perhaps it wasn’t the best moment to start a new venture but it was utterly needed: in the next days it will be quite hectic to put things together and, at the same time, keep up with the business.
I have chosen to use a Blog...
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