by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | Enterprise |
Let’s take it from the top What is behind the decision to fold Sun’s storage group into the server group? I’ll quote from Jonathan Schwartz’s blog and analyze. Mr. Schwartz has hold of a serious idea here: if Sun were competitive in storage it...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 1, 2007 | Disk |
They bought IBM’s business, not the brand Things aren’t good when an unsourced report claims Hitachi is selling its loss-making disk and the stock rises 7% in the biggest 1 day percentage gain in 4 years. Hitachi denied it. Sounds like the bankers are...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 28, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Several readers have asked Boy, do the Fusion-io guys give a good demo! Now if only they can ship a product. I like startups. People putting their heart and soul into an idea that rarely turns out as well as they hoped. As is said of 2nd marriages, the triumph of hope...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | Clusters, Information Management |
What about Sun’s acquisition of Cluster File Systems, Inc.? Yawn. CFSI was going out of business. Sun bought the assets, not the company. Good for CFSI employees They get a paycheck from a solvent company. They may even get some sensible marketing. Hey, it could...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
Yay! Parascale (parallel scale) launched its beta Virtual Storage Network this week. I’ve done some consulting for them so I won’t pretend to be objective. I’m a big fan of software-based storage clusters no matter who makes them. GFS-like is more...
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