by Robin Harris | Friday, September 26, 2014 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Disk drives and flash are already pushing the limits of nanotechnology to increase density. But what if we went with encoding data directly into molecules? Does a petabyte per cc sound interesting? In Advances in Macromolecular Data Storage, Masud Mansuripur, a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 | Enterprise, Marketing |
With reports from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that EMC has been shopping itself to HP, Dell and perhaps Cisco and Oracle (pretty please!) it’s clear that the “EMC Federation” concept has cratered. Why did it take so long? While an...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 19, 2014 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Got up at 6am last Sunday and headed off to the Broken Arrow trailhead. There are several possible loops but so far I’ve stuck with the longest one around Twin Buttes. It’s about 6.5 miles with over 1300 ft of total vertical, so it’s a decent...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 16, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It was obvious in 2006 that Google’s clean-sheet GFS would revolutionize massive storage. The problem has been taking Google’s concepts and scaling them down to less than warehouse scale. A number of companies have tried – Nutanix is probably the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 12, 2014 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
With family visiting I only got out once this week: a 3 hour hike on the Brins Mesa, Soldiers Pass, Cibola and Jordan Trail’s loop. It’s a favorite: bracing vertical; much variety; not too many tourists (usually); and, of course, fabulous vistas....
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