About

Thomas Sjolshagen

Having spent more than 12 years in various roles implementing, supporting, consulting or product planning for mission critical UNIX environments with and at several Fortune 50 companies, I believe I have enough of an understanding of the needs and requirements of mission critical workloads to explain how and why the commercial Linux distributions, running on 64-bit x86 platforms based on Intel or AMD processors, are ready to start taking on UNIX for some of more critical application environments.  And I’ll try to do so in a meaningful way on these pages.

The consistent thread through these pages will be my experiences while talking about Linux and enterprise class iSCSI storage arrays and using Linux as the foundation for some of the many business important, business critical and mission critical applications I believe it is capable of handling. I’ll share whatever information I can get my hands on (as and when I get it) and may even dabble with a vLog if I find something worthy of the media (don’t hold your breath!)

These days, you’ll find me working in the enterprise storage space for Dell[1]. Obviously, nothing I say here, on twitter.com or anywhere else where you stumble across my name is endorsed by Dell or represent any sort of official or unofficial statement from Dell. The thoughts herein (and anywhere else) are mine and mine alone. To paraphrase a former colleague of mine: “Dell may not want those thoughts anyway”

Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you’ve got anything you’d like to contribute or share: webmaster@sjolshagen.net

[1] = The opinions expressed here are my personal opinions. Content published here is not read or approved in advance by DELL and does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of DELL.