by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 28, 2010 | Off-Topic |
As the world’s largest consumer of information technology, the US government has driven IT R&D for over a century. And they’ve done a pretty good job. What’s next? In Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 10, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Most of us know what it is like when a relationship goes bad: the sinking feeling that this just isn’t going to work. Can this configuration be saved? Dear StorageMojo: I joined a company last year that is running Oracle 10g on a NetApp NAS/SAN. Immediately I...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 3, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Talked to a startup the other day that looks interesting – Zettar. It wasn’t the name that caught my attention. Object storage is big in clouds. But objects aren’t compatible with standard apps: Powerpoint expects files, not objects. Cloudstores like...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 29, 2010 | Architecture, Future Tech |
CPU performance and clock speed have leveled out over the last several years. What does this mean for the industry? Moore’s law Strictly speaking, Moore’s law says that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 to 24 months. And that’s...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 18, 2010 | Enterprise |
EMC acquires Isilon for $2.25 billion in cash. The StorageMojo take In one acquisition EMC gets: A high-growth scale out storage company. A replacement for the aging and unloved Centera/Celerra lines. A worthy competitor to NetApp’s NAS boxes. Scale out storage...
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