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ZFS+10: illumos meetup

ZFS recently celebrated its informal 10th anniversary; to mark the occasion, Delphix hosted a ZFS-themed meetup for the illumos community (sponsored generously by Joyent). Many thanks to Deirdre Straughan, the new illumos community manager, for helping to organize and for filming the event. Three of my colleagues at Delphix presented work they’ve been doing in [...]





Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:39 pm by ahl · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Welcome Matt Amdur

It’s my pleasure to welcome Matt Amdur to Delphix, to the world of DTrace, and — just today — to the blogosphere. Matt joined Delphix about two months after 10 years of software engineering, most recently at VMware. Matt and I met in at Brown University in 1997 where we worked together closely for all [...]





Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:40 pm by ahl · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Engineers and customers

Today I took the train out to Long Island to meet up with our New York sales team for a visit with a prospective customer. You never know with an initial meeting, but this one was great. I thought I’d share a bit about what made these guys so excited which is the same stuff [...]





Posted on June 3, 2011 at 2:03 pm by ahl · Permalink · 7 Comments
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Delphix welcomes Matt Ahrens and George Wilson

This week it was my pleasure to welcome my former Sun colleague Matt Ahrens and George Wilson to Delphix. Matt and I studied computer science together at Brown and then joined Sun in 2001. Matt joined Jeff Bonwick to start ZFS while I worked on DTrace. George joined Sun in 1996, and worked in a [...]





Posted on November 19, 2010 at 4:36 pm by ahl · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Delphix CEO joins the blogosphere

Welcome to Jed Yueh, our CEO at Delphix, who recently posted his first blog entry. … With three clicks from our intuitive, consumer-grade interface, you can cut through a decade of frustration and redundancy in enterprise datacenters. And customers are quickly seeing the value of the gun vs. the sword: in our first two quarters [...]





Posted on November 15, 2010 at 5:32 am by ahl · Permalink · One Comment
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Delphix launch at DEMO

At 4:08pm today, we will launch Delphix Server at DEMO. At the presentation, Richard Rothschild from TiVo will describe how they have been using Delphix. TiVo, of course, has been canonized as technology that changes the way we live or work. My past work on DTrace was described by users as “TiVo for the kernel” [...]





Posted on September 14, 2010 at 9:35 pm by ahl · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Joining Delphix

As I wrote about last time, I’ve left Oracle. What I was looking for in my next gig was technology that excites me, excellent management, and a chance to build something significant and successful. I’m confident that I’ve found those things with Delphix. In the established database market, Delphix creates a virtualization layer that simplifies [...]





Posted on August 24, 2010 at 5:19 am by ahl · Permalink · 6 Comments
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