by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Fusion-io had the PCI-e flash card market all to themselves for the longest time – but no more. Texas Memory Systems, a stalwart in the DRAM-based SSD market, has announced a new product, the RAMSan-20, a 450 GB SSD on a full height, full length PCI-e card. With...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 9, 2009 | Future Tech |
Butler Lampson, Irwin Jacobs and Vint Cerf walked into a bar . . . . Actually, they spoke at a symposium held at Google’s HQ sponsored by the American Academy for Arts and SciencesThe Public Good: The Impact of Information Technology on Society. (See the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 5, 2009 | Off-Topic |
According to PC World, the US Justice Department joined a suit brought against EMC, Booz Allen Hamilton, Acxiom, and Titan Corporation by 2 individuals in Little Rock. The original suit was filed 2 years ago – the new news is Justice’s involvement. Justice...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
In a comment to the previous post, Pete Steege asked for some expansion on Alyssa’s comments about belt & suspenders vs catastrophe avoidance. He thought the concept interesting and I agree: it’s central to the scalability of storage. Alyssa...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Here are my notes from Alyssa Henry’s Keynote on Amazon Web Services. Alyssa is the GM of Amazon’s S3. Not much editing and no slides – yet – to link. Update: slides are here. Alert readers Tim and Justin found the link. Thanks, guys. Update 2:...
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