by Robin Harris | Monday, July 31, 2006 | Off-Topic |
Ok, I’m early, but this is a big birthday. Steven Levy, one of the best tech journalists in the business, notes in Newsweek that September 13, 2006 will mark the 50th anniversary of the first disk drive ever shipped, the IBM RAMAC (Random Access Method of...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 28, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Update: A major power problem at the building where Dreamhost and many other hosting and network firms are colocated kept StorageMojo.com down for several hours Friday. As luck would have it, the failure occurred just...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Storage Cost and Implementation The Internet Data Center (IDC) is architected very differently from an Enterprise Data Center (EDC). In an EDC, RAID arrays are used to hide the disk’s physical limitations. In the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 24, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Introduction: Internet Scale vs Enterprise Scale The rise of the Internet Data Center (IDC), such as Amazon, Google and Yahoo, in the last 10 years is perhaps the fastest and most radical transformation in information...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 21, 2006 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The Storage Forum provides a brief review of the open source FreeNAS project. FreeNAS is a small (less than 16MB) operating system based on FreeBSD 6 that provides free Network-Attached Storage services: CIFS, FTP and NFS. The money quote: Testing I did in my lab with...
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