free pressos from CA on the Cloud

http://www.ca.com/au/content/campaign.aspx?cid=233771

to me CA brand seems the furthest from the Cloud...

CORAID EtherDrive ATA-over-Ethernet ( SAN for Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Storage

CORAID EtherDrive: Ethernet SAN for Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Storage

10Gb Ethernet will be ubiquitous soon and this EtherDrive stuff has a great price/performance ratio

AIX has been able to boot iSCSI since v5 and support for NAS(ATA-over-Ethernet) has been in the Linux kernel circa. 2005

I'm mean, seriously when is storage going to `converge`?

Oracle to Postgres Conversion

Im not getting a good feeling from what's happening at Sun since Oracle took over,lots of good people seem to have left, Solaris now needs a support contract to use after 90 days(read the download T&Cs)who knows how open MySQL will be? oh well there is always open Solaris and hopefully ZFS will go into more OSs likse it did into freeBSD
I personally get a bad feeling from ALL CLOSED STANDARD COMMERCIAL PROPERTY software.
At the end of the day Oracle's #1 job is to make money, databases ,applications,hardware ,software and services are all tools to achieve this

postgeSQL looks like the likely candidate due to is support in apache hadoop and even a variant in commercial products like Greenplums data warehouse cloud

anyway here is a spot to put Oracle to postgreSQL links, I think downreved ORA to latest PG is a doable migration. Just a straight DB is good, PLSQL makes it harder but there are conversion tools

Oracle to Postgres Conversion - PostgreSQL Wiki
Orafce Project - Oracle functions
Oracle to PostgreSQL