by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 12, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Mountain biking is very popular in the surrounding national forest. Enthusiasts have built many challenging bike trails, which I like to hike – not bike. I’ve never broken a bone and don’t intend to start now. Hog Heaven is one of the toughest of the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 10, 2016 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC |
I feel sorry for EMC’s marketers: they have to make 10-20 year old technology seem au courant. It’s an uphill battle, but that’s why they get the big bucks. The latest effort to perfume the pig – hold still, dammit! – is EMC Unity. In a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
I’m a guest of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise at Discover 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. I enjoy catching up with the only remaining full-line computer company. HP was a competitor in my DEC days, and since the Compaq purchase they incorporate the remains of...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 2, 2016 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SOHO/SMB |
If memory serves – and mine often doesn’t – I asked a panel at the NVM Workshop at UCSD their opinion on using Thunderbolt as a cheap, fast, and flexible interconnect. After all, I thought, academics always need more than they can afford, so these...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 31, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Yesterday I took a seven mile out-and-back hike along the Chuckwagon Trail. This is an area I want to explore more. It didn’t look like a good day for pictures, so I didn’t take the Canon EOS-M. But the smoke from a couple of burns on the Rim cleared and...
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