by Robin Harris | Monday, February 18, 2008 | Disk, Enterprise |
Last year’s Google and CMU papers on disk failure rates (see Everything you know about disks is wrong and Google’s Disk Failure Experience) made the points that a) annual disk failure rates are significantly higher than manufacturers admit and b) that...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Disk, Future Tech |
The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will give us 10 TB 2.5″ disks in the next decade. But then what? Optical protein-based quantum dots could be the answer....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Got an interesting press release this morning about a Denver-area company, Atrato, announcing its existence and $18 million in funding. Their mission: Based in Westminster, Colorado, Atrato Inc.’s (www.atrato-Inc.com) mission is to help companies in entertainment,...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 10, 2008 | Future Tech |
Join me in San Jose, CA, February 26–29, 2008, for the latest in File And Storage Technologies. Top researchers from academe and industry – NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, Data Domain, HP, Panasas, Yahoo, Seagate and more – will present their latest research....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 6, 2008 | Information Management, Security & Public Policy |
What’s wrong with White House backup? I published a review of David Gewirtz’s book Where Have All the Emails Gone? over on ZDnet. A quick overview: The White House may or may not have lost 5 million emails. They aren’t sure. Gewirtz, an email expert,...
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