by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 22, 2008 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 19, 2008 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Greetings from Las Vegas And EMC World 2008. Dave Donatelli, president of EMC’s storage business, presented to the press room this morning. His most interesting statement was that flash drives will have cost-parity with, and therefore replace, high-end rotating...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 19, 2008 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
Getting rid of the hacked files and spam links wasn’t the end of it Dreamhost notified me that the load on my server was excessive and they’d disabled StorageMojo. Yikes! Had I been hacked again? DDOS attack? What? Building the correct mental model In...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | Off-Topic |
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...
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