by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 5, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
FAB: the software This is the good part. Each brick runs three pieces of software: The Coordinator that receives client requests and manages reads and writes The Block-manager that does the actual reading and writing of – you guessed it! – disk blocks And...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 4, 2006 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
OK, executives at EMC, HP, IBM and Microsoft, do you really want to make a difference for your company, your fellow citizens and your country? Here’s your chance. It won’t be easy or quick, but if you are as good as you want us to believe, here’s...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 1, 2006 | Security & Public Policy |
The big day for the new e-discovery Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has arrived and it’s Gold Rush time for e-discovery vendors. This morning’s Associated Press report quoted a somewhat dubious source, James Wright ” . . . director of electronic...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 30, 2006 | Off-Topic |
You work hard on a project for years and then marketing takes over. The underwhelming market response to the baby you sweated over is a bummer. Plus you may not get to do it again because “you” failed. How is an engineer to know if their marketing is going...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Is it really possible to build enterprise-class storage using cheap commodity products? Some folks at HP certainly think so. They call their design FAB, short for a Federated Array of Bricks. Ignatz, meet Krazy Kat. Of course, HP is only the world’s largest data...
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