My short hiatus away from blogging accidentally turned into a three month long sabbatical. I have a new employer, a new set of responsibilities, and most importantly, a new focus. I will no longer be focusing on storage. Instead, I will be looking at servers and systems. Storage will still be featured from time to time, but it will no longer be the primary topic of my writings.
In many ways, servers and systems are “home” for me. I started my career on the mainframe, moved to *nix, dabbled in Windows, and only fairly recently was focused exclusively on storage. I’ve spent time with OSF/1, HP-UX, AIX, and of course, Linux. My HP experience is pre-Itanium, so it is quite dated. My Linux experience dates back to kernel 0.99, and my AIX experience goes back to AIX/6000 v3.
Despite my employer being an IBM value added reseller, I am going to try to stay away from marketing and focus on technology. My efforts at being a product cheerleader could be charitably described as “unfortunate”. In my new job, I work for the services side of the house, so I am much more hands on with the technology and spend less time reading marketing glossies. I am hoping that this approach will work better.
