Yesterday was the first of two big days in the Sun+StorageTek integration work I’m doing here in Colorado. First, we gathered most of the employees at StorageTek’s Louisville facility and Sun’s Broomfield campus in the courtyard at Broomfield for executive speeches, food, music (too loud, but never mind), networking, and celebration. That was from 10 to 12. Then in the afternoon we had a couple of “geek to geek” sessions on file systems and the application of crypto techniques to storage. The second of these ran until about 8; I brought in some food and beer to help the discussions. (The beer caused some confusion: Sun and StorageTek policies are different. But we’re all Sun now.)
Today we’re having an all day colloquium with around 75-80 55 participants, drawn from all over Sun. We’ll have a morning plenary session, with break-outs this afternoon. I’m looking forward to this: the energy levels and enthusiasm seem to be really high. More anon (perhaps with pictures – another policy issue to resolve).