by Robin Harris | Friday, March 11, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Information Management, Off-Topic |
Persistent digital storage is an absolute requirement for a persisting digital civilization – and I remain concerned that with the exception of M-disc we don’t have digital media with a 500 year life. But I also take a broader view of storage, including...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Here’s a good question: why are cloud vendors able to innovate so much faster than legacy vendors? AWS brags about the hundreds of new features and services they implement every year – and their accelerating pace. But here’s a better question: why...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 3, 2016 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Why do we focus on I/O? Because our architectures are all about moving data to the CPU. But why is that the model? Because Turing and von Neumann? Universal Turing Machines (UTM) have a fixed read/write head and a movable tape that stores data, instructions and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 3, 2016 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I’m looking forward to attending the 7th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop 2016 at UC San Diego next week. I couldn’t make FAST 16 this year – darn it! – so this will be my Q1 storage wonk fix. My focus is on emerging technologies,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | Marketing |
I spent years working closely with engineers at DEC, Sun and other companies – and I always felt a bit sorry for them. They’d get flayed for every decommit and slip. They’d sweat blood figuring out solutions to hundreds of subtle problems. Then,...
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