by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 30, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports on a federal whistle-blower suit that shines light on a high-tech industry practice that I’ll bet most customers don’t know about. Here’s the deal. Tech companies sign agreements to cooperate...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | Disk, Future Tech |
Ever since the HAL 9000 was decommissioned by pulling out its clear plastic storage modules in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey every storage geek has been jonesing for 3D storage. Holographic, multi-layer, whatever. I want capacity and I want it now!...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 27, 2007 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Solid state disks have been around for decades and failed to make the IT mainstream. Why is that about to change? I did a stint of SSD marketing at DEC in the early 90’s. Then, as now, SSDs offered low I/O latency and high IOPS capacity at an astronomical $/GB....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
No, not another post about green IT Mention green to most CFO’s and they’ll assume you’re talking about the color of money. Which is exactly the language of a Wall Street Journal article (subscription required I fear) on Sir Richard Branson’s...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, August 19, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
You say you want a revolution? Energy efficient data centers are in the news again, with the EPA reporting that data centers use 1.5% of US electricity – almost 6 million home’s worth – and doubling in five years. The numbers don’t include the...
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