by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 9, 2011 | Management, Marketing, Off-Topic |
Ken Olsen, the founder and long-time CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), died Sunday. It is a sad day for hundreds of thousands of DEC alumni. DEC’s beginnings As a grad student at MIT Ken worked on Project Whirlwind, the world’s first interactive...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 30, 2011 | Architecture, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The performance increase in individual CPUs is slowing to a crawl. All the easy wins – higher clock speeds, wider datapaths, more DRAM, larger registers and caches, 2-4 cores – have been exploited. Doctor, is there any hope? In the recent PCAST report on...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 24, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Talked to a company last week whose cloud app handles several billion transactions per month on a cluster. Sounds like SSDs could help them but how? In a paper from the latest 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR ’11) researchers...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 5, 2011 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Jim Handy of Objective Analysis writes: I am conducting interviews of Fusion-io users and would like to speak to as many as I can. If you use a Fusion-io product or if you know someone who does please let me know. Thanks, Jim _______________________________ Jim Handy...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 3, 2011 | Marketing |
The cowboys at StorageMojo’s Global HQ are saddling up for a ride out to Storage Visions 2011 and the International Consumer Electronics Show. Yippee-ki-yi-yay. The high volumes and intense competition of consumer electronics drive manufacturing costs down the...
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