by Robin Harris | Friday, November 13, 2009 | Clusters, Future Tech |
Spending the week in Silicon Valley catching up on storage progress. Short takes: Hyper-V storage virtualization. Software now in beta that dramatically increases the Microsoft virtualization layer’s storage chops: cheap snapshots; high-performance I/O with...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
A recent post on the dumb disk fallacy argues that enterprise storage isn’t overpriced. That misses the point: enterprise arrays may not be overpriced – but they overshoot most market requirements. That’s why there’s so much innovation in the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | Off-Topic |
I have some openings Tuesday and Wednesday – 10th , 11th – for folks who’d like to engage. Let me know in the comments or at my email. Thanks! Update: my schedule is full. Watch this space for future travel info.
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
It gushes money Gartner’s business model is genius. They gather information from vendors and users – for large fees from both – and then sell that information back to them for even more money. Bliss. They own a toll booth on the user/vendor...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Architecture, Information Management |
Ding, dong. PC file system progress took a giant step back this week with the news on MacOSforge that Apple’s ZFS project has been discontinued. ZFS Project Shutdown 2009-10-23 The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be...
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