by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 27, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Mobile computing. Cloud computing. Client-server computing. Green computing. A new mainframe. A 9U supercomputer. Scale-out clusters. High-bandwidth RAID controllers. Multi-core processors. Massive memory servers. Facebook. YouTube. Twitter. Blogging. MySpace. Google...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 23, 2008 | Off-Topic |
Do you help buy, spec or evaluate storage and related products? Please take a few minutes to take a survey that I hope will make potential advertisers thrust large piles of green my way. Click on the “We value your opinion” button under my picture to the...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 23, 2008 | Architecture, SAN, FC |
Back in ’96, when I was flogging FC networks for Sun under NDA, the most common objection was “I don’t want another layer to manage.” Despite that FC became successful in big enterprise IT shops. But the objection is still valid and a major...
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...
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