by Robin Harris | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
A re-education camp for bloggers. If I start gushing on HP, slap me. Starts tomorrow in Colorado Springs. I’ve heard they’re flying in bloggers from Europe, which may lend tone to the event. Can you spell “virtualization?” The agenda includes...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 21, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
A new web scale – they claim linear scaling to 50,000 nodes — filesystem from MaxiScale has some interesting wrinkles. Wrinkle #1 – like several of the largest Web scale filesystems MaxiScale does not use RAID. Instead, it replicates files among peer...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 18, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage |
If cloud computing or cloud storage is a gold rush, hosting providers are a rich vein. I attended the Tier1’s Hosting Transformation Summit this week to learn more about them. The short answer: hosting companies are at least as confused about cloud...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 14, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
High-end big iron storage arrays have long owned the transaction processing market. The big relational database systems need all the I/O and availability you can give them. But what if we didn’t need big relational databases? What then? RDBMS – RIP? On his...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, September 13, 2009 | Off-Topic |
5 years: that’s as long as a Seagate warranty! I started blogging about storage before I started StorageMojo. No one read the posts and I had no idea how to change that, so the posts got less frequent and finally dribbled to a stop. Less than a year later I...
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