Today the Systems trade fair started in Munich. This year the Systems spans five halls. The same size as in 2007.
The most interesting hall this year was hall B3. The IT security hall, which covers one of the most important topics in IT business today.
Together with one of it's partners the Rittal company showed the world smallest computing center. Only one rack, but it includes a climate control unit and a fire extinguishing equipment. The rack is also protected against common risks like fire (outside the rack) and thief's.
At the stand of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) I got very good information about security certifications. They offer a lot of standard procedures to introduce IT security processes in companies.
In the open source area I found a lot of very well known people from the German company SerNet. Karolin Seeger and Volker Lendecke talked about the news around the Samba server. Nearby the Debian project informed about the upcoming Lenny release.
A big topic on this years System was also virtualisation. I was able to compare different solutions from different vendors. Parallels Virtuzzo and Citrixs XenServer seemed to be the big players in addition to VMware. Unfortunately, Google did not show their Xen based Ganeti cluster software, which I was really interested in.
I also met a lot of friends and well known people on the systems. So we found much time to exchange experiences and to squall the stand people with our questions together.
At the end of the day it was a nice trade fair without really big news. But I was able to take a more detailed look on some interesting products.
