by Robin Harris | Monday, May 31, 2010 | Off-Topic |
Today in the United States we celebrate a national holiday, Memorial Day, to honor those who have fought for our country and its Constitution. I thought to re-post one of my Memorial Day posts from last year, Hospital ship Haven in Nagasaki, Japan, 1945 about my...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 24, 2010 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A hybrid of SSD and hard drive that gives you the best of both worlds. That’s the theory anyway. But I won’t keep you in suspense: I think Seagate has hit a home run with their new hybrid XT architecture. Specs Take a standard issue 7200 rpm, 500 GB...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Shouting at a disk drive will cause it to stop. But what about the constant nagging they get in busy data centers? That’s a bigger problem. Bad, bad, bad vibrations The use of consumer-grade SATA drives in the enterprise raises the concern. A 2005 study,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Clusters, Video |
Harmonic is acquiring video production infrastructure and storage provider Omneon for $274 million. They’d raised about $100M since their founding. Omneon Video Networks is a specialized storage company that provides broadcast quality storage for digital media,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 5, 2010 | Enterprise, Marketing |
Leaving Sunday for beautiful downtown Boston. Really: much nicer since they finished the Big Dig. Hoping to learn more about Atmos. Did you know it is available as an online service? And I want to talk to some of the RSA researchers working on storage, but I’m...
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