by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 28, 2008 | Off-Topic |
A global village in the mountains Did you notice the new header picture this week? No? That’s OK. I enjoy taking the pictures anyway. But this picture is from StorageMojo’s new global HQ. There is a spacious office – or it will be once the boxes are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
I’ve been trying to get my head wrapped around IBM’s new XIV product – and not having much luck. When the acquisition was announced Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM system storage, said it would “. . . put IBM in the best position to address...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Jim Gray, in his paper Distributed Computing Economics, (pdf) noted that there is a rough price parity between 10 bytes of network traffic and a megabyte of disk bandwidth. One of his conclusions: computing has to be as close to the data as possible in order to avoid...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A panel discussion on enterprise SSDs at the Flash Memory Summit came to an almost unanimous conclusion: NAND flash is best seen as an extension to DRAM and a layer between DRAM and disk – not as the guts of a disk drive replacement. I don’t think the guy...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, August 9, 2008 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If you are attending the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara on Tuesday and Wednesday please say hello. Tuesday morning I will be sprinting between my two concurrent sessions. In Forum F1B: Laptop Design session I’ll be giving a 25 minute presentation titled...
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