by Robin Harris | Sunday, December 6, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
Virtual machines (VMs) solve the problem of many tiny servers on a big server. VMs are a logical outgrowth of Moore’s Law: server CPUs got bigger, faster, than the apps required. And Windows Server didn’t handle multiple apps well. But the growth of 100...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | Disk, SOHO/SMB |
Geoff Barrall founded BlueArc at the high end of NAS performance. He then founded Data Robotics, maker of the Drobo low end arrays. A group of bloggers visited DR last month and a lucky few – not including me – took brand new Drobo2 units home. The idea...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 23, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
Looking at ZL Technologies suit against Gartner (seeGartner’s magic hydrant) I noticed an interesting disconnect between their filings and their web site. The filings make impressive claims: Symantec’s search is so slow as to render it useless for its intended...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Xsigo (see-go) produces an I/O consolidation appliance whose elegance impresses. I/O clutter Typical blade servers have several I/O adapters for networks and storage. Today’s multi-CPU – each multi-core – mobo’s need much bandwidth to stay...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | Off-Topic |
Update: All -I think – the links have have been reset using a fresh batch of WordPress grout. If any still don’t work please let me know. End update. I’m told that the StorageMojo price lists are down because the pages were switched to permalinks. I...
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