by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | Backup, Information Management, SOHO/SMB |
Moving to a small town in northern Arizona from Silicon Valley has enriched my perspective on many things, including how the industry develops products. The consensus is that if we take datacenter technology and put in enough defaults it will be “simple”...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 16, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech, Off-Topic, SAN, FC |
The P4P working group demo’d their work Friday at the Distributed Computing Industry Association show in New York. Not only did they show 2-3x faster downloads, but they also cut the average number of inter-metro hops – the expensive kind – from over...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 14, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Disk |
It didn’t win Best Paper honors at FAST 08 – IIRC it was An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (the link is to the StorageMojo review of that excellent paper last month) but I really like the thinking behind Pergamum: Replacing Tape with...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | Enterprise |
NetApp has formally changed its name from Network Appliance Inc to NetApp Inc. The name change is part of a larger effort to raise their awareness among what they call the Storage 5000 – the 5000 largest storage customers worldwide. I’m in NYC today and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
How flash is really going to affect the storage industry is becoming clear. The short take: not as big a deal as flash vendors hoped. The longer take: There won’t be much of a mid-range flash market; instead we’ll see either costly fast flash or cheap slow...
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