by Robin Harris | Monday, November 23, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
Looking at ZL Technologies suit against Gartner (seeGartner’s magic hydrant) I noticed an interesting disconnect between their filings and their web site. The filings make impressive claims: Symantec’s search is so slow as to render it useless for its intended...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Xsigo (see-go) produces an I/O consolidation appliance whose elegance impresses. I/O clutter Typical blade servers have several I/O adapters for networks and storage. Today’s multi-CPU – each multi-core – mobo’s need much bandwidth to stay...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | Off-Topic |
Update: All -I think – the links have have been reset using a fresh batch of WordPress grout. If any still don’t work please let me know. End update. I’m told that the StorageMojo price lists are down because the pages were switched to permalinks. I...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 13, 2009 | Clusters, Future Tech |
Spending the week in Silicon Valley catching up on storage progress. Short takes: Hyper-V storage virtualization. Software now in beta that dramatically increases the Microsoft virtualization layer’s storage chops: cheap snapshots; high-performance I/O with...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
A recent post on the dumb disk fallacy argues that enterprise storage isn’t overpriced. That misses the point: enterprise arrays may not be overpriced – but they overshoot most market requirements. That’s why there’s so much innovation in the...
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