While at the 2008 zSummit, James talked with two students who'd been involved in the System z academic initiative: Ben Ferenchak and Scott Wetter. James starts by asking them how they got interested and involved in working on mainframes, asks how about their general take on System z, and then talks with them about their career thinking and how System z plays into that.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced recently that they are trialling shipping monitors from China to Germany via train. This option saves time over shipping by sea and is far more environmentally friendly than air freight. Hans Erbe, Fujitsu Siemens senior director of Logistics, explains the reasons behind this shipment and says that if all goes well, Fujitsu Siemens will use this mode of transport again

In this three part interview/screencast combo, we talk with Dennis Howlett, Darren Hague, and David Pollak about their work on ESME. Dennis and David spend time talking about how ESME came to be and their involvement, while Darren gives a peek at the code-base by showing us how he added search to ESME.

For a demo of ESME in action and more info, check out the original demo video referred to in a recent post of mine

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Thanks to Dennis, Darren, and David for coming together quickly to record their segments!

Disclosure: SAP is a client and sponsored the above video.

In the first part, Steve gives us an overview of xVM Server, talks about usage scenarios and getting started with xVM Server, and then how it fits in to Sun’s virtualization portfolio.