by Robin Harris | Friday, February 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
James Hamilton, Amazon architect and a very smart guy, recently blogged about private clouds. In Private Clouds Are Not The Future he argues that economies of scale make public clouds much more efficient than private clouds. I think we agree that several effects make...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | Enterprise, Information Management |
While everyone else was watching the Apple iPad intro I was watching Oracle’s John Fowler talk about their systems and storage strategy. I like the iPad, but the O+S strategy could reshape the storage industry. More details will emerge and many decisions still...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | Backup, Future Tech |
IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a technology that, if productized, could give us a 70 TB LTO tape cartridge. Tape isn’t dead – that will be a long time coming – but its vital signs aren’t good, either. Vacuum column, 800bpi tape drives...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Verari Systems is now Verari Technologies. The company’s assets were purchased by the original founder, Dave Driggers, after an attempt last year to get another round of financing foundered. They’ve had some success with their containerized compute/storage...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, SOHO/SMB |
A reader writes: I found your blog after searching for storage alternatives. I have to say, its really impressive and has helped me a lot so far. I was wondering if you could offer some advice. We run an online version control service. Currently we are hosted on a...
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