by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Valiant but doomed The ZFS discussion thread had an interesting comment from Sun’s Jeff Bonwick, architect of ZFS, on storage device failure modes. How do you know a disk or a tape has failed? You don’t. You wait, while the milliseconds stretch into...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Yes, Virginia, the storage industry will survive the crisis Economists and business leaders generally agree that the current, as yet unofficial, recession will be the worst we have seen since the Great Depression. The credit bubble has popped and we are facing global...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 17, 2008 | Off-Topic |
EMC’s Atmos, the product formerly known as Hulk/Maui, has gotten the full EMC marketing machine treatment. With a twist: EMC is rolling the dice on an unproven concept. If it’s eat lunch or be lunch, EMC prefers to dine. I like it. The pig I covered...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
EMC has announced Hulk/Maui, now known as Atmos. I’m flying to Boston today and don’t have access to EMC’s announcement documents. But I have something better: the papers that provide the theoretical underpinning for Atmos. They provide an in-depth...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 10, 2008 | Off-Topic |
I’ve been working with IDG to monetize StorageMojo through ad sales without much success. The latest iteration of the process you may have noticed: the ad that covers the page until you click “close.” They pay OK, but they aren’t the difference...
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