IBRIX CTO talks segmented file system

What’s in a name? I’ve started doing some work for IBRIX. Despite looking at their web site several times I’d never understood what, exactly, they did. Turns out they make a cluster file system. One good enough for Dell, EMC and HP to resell. As...

Where’s Maui?

Just sat through EMC CEO Joe Tucci’s keynote for EMC World 2008. Conspicuous by its absence: Maui; the software piece of the Hulk/Maui global data repository [see EMC’s Maui and everybody else]. Joe promised Hulk/Maui in 7 months last November. EMC showed...

Seagate’s head-settling time?

First it was the bogus “national security” argument against a Chinese buy-out of Seagate. Now it’s suing STEC over solid state drives (SSD). Has William Watkins, Seagate’s CEO, jumped the shark? STEC said, per legal SOP, that the suit was...