by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 21, 2010 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Just checked out the papers for this year’s FAST ’10 in San Jose this week. They are impressive. Here are a few that caught my eye with quotes, mostly from the abstracts, but sometimes from the results. SRCMap: Energy Proportional Storage using Dynamic...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 19, 2010 | Backup, Future Tech |
After 9 years and $100,000,000, holographic storage pioneer InPhase Technologies has shut down without ever shipping a product. Their office building was also seized for non-payment of back taxes. They assured me that the product would ship in May, 2008. It...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 15, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage |
Isilon reached an important milestone this month: their first profitable quarter and an annual run rate of about $150 million a year — in only 10 years. But what if I told you there was another Seattle-area storage company on target to do $500 million in only 5...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 14, 2010 | Future Tech |
The USENIX conference on File And Storage Technologies is in San Jose, Feb. 23-26. Here’s the blurb: FAST ’10 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 8, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
MapReduce and its open source version, Hadoop, are parallel data analysis tools. A few lines of code can drive massive data reductions across thousands of nodes. Cool. Powerful though it is, Hadoop isn’t a database. Classic structured data analysis of the...
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