by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | Future Tech |
The limits of open source engineering Hang with engineers for a while and griping about marketing is inevitable. The 3 Margarita lunches, the plush globetrotting, the hotties in Marcom and worst of all, they don’t understand the product. Next bench marketing...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 19, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Nexenta is the next open source storage company – and the first to use ZFS. They are aiming at the enterprise storage market for 2nd tier storage. I talked to Evan Powell, the CEO last week, after a StorageMojo reader and Nexenta user, Joe Little, tipped me off...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise |
Joe Tucci let slip, on purpose, that EMC will be coming out with a cluster storage system for backup and archive purposes at a press event this week. Hulk is the code name for the hardware. Maui is the software. Expect to see large green guys in grass skirts at the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I wrote about my testing of notebook disk drive power usage on ZDnet yesterday (see How much does a flash disk increase battery life?). I pulled the 160 GB WD Scorpio out of my MacBook and ran it on wall power through a Kill-a-watt meter to better understand power...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | Disk, Security & Public Policy |
The China syndrome pt. II According to Engadget some Maxtor-branded Seagate drives shipped with a handy little virus: . . . drives produced by a company sub-contract manufacturer located in China were reportedly sent out with the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah program already...
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