by Robin Harris | Monday, December 28, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
2009 has been an eventful year: the Great Recession has driven big changes in enterprise behavior, opening up the field to many new players. Isilon, for one, is reporting healthy growth and they were on the ropes 2 years ago. Those changes are reflected in my take on...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 21, 2009 | Disk |
WD has started shipping drives that drop the ancient 512 byte disk sector for a 4096 byte – 4k – sector, and the rest of industry isn’t far behind. For several decades disk sectors have been almost always been 512 bytes (NetApp tried 520 bytes...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | Management, Marketing, SOHO/SMB |
I noticed this morning that co-founder Geoff Barrall is out as Data Robotics CEO. The VCs installed their own guy, who previously was head of sales and marketing at on-the-ropes Brocade. Given Geoff’s banishment from the executive team and the lack of a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 8, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
But not that kind of science project. This is the real deal, already running near a petabyte, needing to upgrade and looking for answers. Sounds like they’ll be spending real money real soon. I edited for brevity and asked the writer to monitor the comments to...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 8, 2009 | Off-Topic |
Edelman, the big PR firm, blogger Jonny Bentwood ranked the top 400 IT analyst blogs. This includes people from Gartner, IDC, Forrester and all the other firms, all the way down to the 1 man shops – like me. StorageMojo was the top-ranked storage blog, coming in...
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