We are heavy users of virtualization at Likewise Software. Since we develop software for over 100 different platforms (multiple flavors of UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X), we have to be able to boot up a Red Hat 2.1 machine one minute and a Open Solaris machine the next. Developers and testers, both, need access…

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about usability testing. Mostly, I talked about testing methodology and the value that it brings. We’ve now finished 8 sessions and I thought it would be good to revisit the subject. Once again, I’m amazed by how much value usability testing can provide. We’ve been testing our Likewise…

After re-reading my last post, I realize that some of you might have no clue what I’m talking about when I mention network attached storage (NAS). To use an oxymoron, this post is a follow-up primer. The idea with a NAS is to centralize storage across multiple machines in a network. Instead of having to maintain…