by Robin Harris | Friday, September 28, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Several readers have asked Boy, do the Fusion-io guys give a good demo! Now if only they can ship a product. I like startups. People putting their heart and soul into an idea that rarely turns out as well as they hoped. As is said of 2nd marriages, the triumph of hope...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | Clusters, Information Management |
What about Sun’s acquisition of Cluster File Systems, Inc.? Yawn. CFSI was going out of business. Sun bought the assets, not the company. Good for CFSI employees They get a paycheck from a solvent company. They may even get some sensible marketing. Hey, it could...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
Yay! Parascale (parallel scale) launched its beta Virtual Storage Network this week. I’ve done some consulting for them so I won’t pretend to be objective. I’m a big fan of software-based storage clusters no matter who makes them. GFS-like is more...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise |
Time to get serious, guys TechCrunch and VNUnet are reporting that EMC is buying online backup provider Mozy for $76 million. Neither EMC or Mozy has issued any confirmation, so who knows if it is real. But let’s assume it is. Puzzled? This is a good fit for EMC...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 24, 2007 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The tension was real The disk guys acknowledged that flash has killed the sub-1.8″ drive market. Will 1.8″ drives be next? The flash guys acknowledged that they have a huge economic problem: heavy seasonality of demand. Consumer demand drives a Q4 peak in...
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