by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | Disk, Future Tech |
Late last year Sun engineer, DTrace co-inventor, flash architect and ZFS developer Adam Leventhal, analyzed RAID 6 as a viable data protection strategy. He lays it out in the Association of Computing Machinery’s Queue magazine, in the article Triple-Parity RAID...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | Future Tech, Information Management |
The official best paper winner at FAST ’10 isn’t one of the several I excerpted. I’m listening to the presentation as I write – trying live blogging – while following a fast talking presenter. The winning paper is quFiles: The right file...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 21, 2010 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Just checked out the papers for this year’s FAST ’10 in San Jose this week. They are impressive. Here are a few that caught my eye with quotes, mostly from the abstracts, but sometimes from the results. SRCMap: Energy Proportional Storage using Dynamic...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 19, 2010 | Backup, Future Tech |
After 9 years and $100,000,000, holographic storage pioneer InPhase Technologies has shut down without ever shipping a product. Their office building was also seized for non-payment of back taxes. They assured me that the product would ship in May, 2008. It...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 15, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage |
Isilon reached an important milestone this month: their first profitable quarter and an annual run rate of about $150 million a year — in only 10 years. But what if I told you there was another Seattle-area storage company on target to do $500 million in only 5...
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