by Robin Harris | Saturday, October 10, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A 2½ year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought — a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. Another piece of hallowed Conventional Wisdom bites the dust. Google...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 5, 2009 | Off-Topic |
Finally, SNW is back in Phoenix, an easy 2 hour drive from the mountains of northern Arizona. I’m looking to meet with as many companies as possible, as well as touring the show floor, shooting some video and maybe – maybe – doing some podcasts. It...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 5, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Okay, we’ve figured out how to produce protected storage for $100 a terabyte . It has wide fan out so the bandwidth is modest. It uses large SATA disks so it isn’t great from an IOPS perspective either. But it works. What would it take to turn it into something...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, October 3, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
HP’s Tech Days this week in Colorado Springs impressed on two levels. First, their willingness to engage with the analysts and writers tagged with the disreputable term “blogger.†Second, the quality of the strategy they outlined for a unified computing and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 28, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
Thinking about cloud Amid the hype and glitz on cloud storage and computing it can be difficult to separate the essential from the transitory. The word scale is abused; APIs are debated; business models are in flux: and new varieties of cloud infrastructure are being...
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