by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | Architecture, Disk |
After last year’s publication of the Google and CMU papers on the much-higher-than-expected annual failure rates of disk drives, StorageMojo challenged vendors to respond. I said The industry has an excellent opportunity to move to greater transparency with...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 24, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
It’s the disks, right? We’ve heard much about disk failures – as recently as last week as well as last year’s reports from Google and CMU. But what about the rest of the system? In a FAST ’08 paper to be presented this week – Are...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | Off-Topic |
Nothing major if you’re wondering. IDG You should be seeing higher quality advertising. IDG, the folks who publish everything that ends in “world” like PC World, Computerworld and Macworld have put together a network of mostly IDG content and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
They haven’t reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO and put founder Sujal Patel in his place. And NetApp was trying to strangle baby Isilon (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | Disk, SAN, FC |
StorageMojo reported last June 19th a rumor that Apple’s Xserve RAID would bite the dust. And now, exactly 8 months later, they’ve pulled the plug. I saw a wall of Xserves and Xserve RAIDs at NAB last year and they were, without a doubt, the prettiest...
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