by Robin Harris | Friday, May 19, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Except Storage Vendors It’s time to break the back of the storage oligopoly. Rip the still-beating heart out of this proprietary industry, drop it in a blender and hit “puree”. We have the weapons. History is on our side. Now is the time. Here is the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
In yesterday’s post I ran through a quick (really, it was!) overview of the Google File System’s organization and storage-related features such as RAID and high-availability. I want to offer a little more data about the performance of GFS before offering...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech
The busy storage elves at IBM’s Almaden Research Center have crammed almost 7 billion bits — about 800 megabytes — onto a square inch of test tape, a 15x improvement over today’s shipping products. The PR goes on to say: The demonstration shows...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
GFS: Fundamental Paradigm Shift or One-off Oddity? As regular readers know, I believe that the current model of enterprise storage is badly broken. When I see something that blows that model away I like to learn more. In particular, I assess the marketability of the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 | Price Lists |
The nice people at EMC sent me a link to a PDF version of the EMC price list. You can download it from here. They confirmed that it is a current price list and that, oddly enough, EMC PR believes that EMC price lists are company confidential. So let’s not tell...
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