Pumps, Pipes & Pools

IT infrastructure made simple Data is like water. CPUs are the pumps. Networks are the pipes. And storage devices are the pools. Like any system, the components are related: changes in one usually leads to changes in the others. The coming wave Fast, cheap processors,...

Cool Data, Cold Cache

Geeky computer guy that I am, I have my machine instrumented with programs (Mac users: MenuMeters) that tell me all kinds of useless information. Network usage, memory usage, CPU load and, of course, disk activity. Mostly all this stuff just tells me that the machine...

Life and Death Competitive Analysis

In all humility, I’m the best competitive analyst I’ve ever met. I’m sure there are people who are better than me, but I’ve never met them, so . . . . For example, despite some wobbling, I called ZFS on Mac months before anyone else I’m...

Isilon #1 Supplier of Storage Clusters

A reader piqued my curiosity I got a comment today from a gentleman named Kevin Stay on an the Isilon’s Q4 Results. Kevin was a little miffed with me. He wrote: “Isilon is validating the storage cluster market” ??? They are a tiny as yet unprofitable...