by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Not so far Flash drives have been rocketing up the hype cycle for the last year, helped along by credulous gadget sites and misleading performance numbers. But the free ride is coming to an end. Over on Storage Bits (see Flash gets a fight from disks and Hybrid...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 | Disk |
Tired of your slow notebook burner? Want to rip a lot of CDs – as I have in the last week? Or maybe you’ve decided that, really and truly, you are going to get serious about backing up important data. Adding an external burner – especially for...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 10, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
I’m always curious about the context of the communications as well as the content. The Bush administration, for example, has been very disciplined in releasing bad news late Friday in the reasonable expectation that most people won’t ever hear about it....
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 7, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Or maybe shoots self in foot NetApp announced on Wednesday that it was suing Sun for patent infringement for ZFS. Sun immediately announced it would indemnify customers against NetApp’s claims, so there is no reason for, let’s say, Apple to stop work on...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 5, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech |
The CEO of a startup told me yesterday that their data mining software is so efficient that it cuts the processing time of a terabyte of data by 75-80%. Surely, he said hopefully, the energy savings alone would drive customer adoption. I don’t think so He got me...
Recent Comments