by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
Jeff Darcy has a good post on key data stores, like Amazon’s Dynamo, and how they differ from filesystems and databases. He relates his transition from a filesystem purist to a more flexible perspective. The thing that really changed my mind about this was an...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 15, 2009 | Architecture, Disk, Future Tech |
DataSlide has come out of stealth mode with a very creative SSD replacement technology. They call it a Hard Rectangular Disk or HRD. Here’s their quick overview: DataSlide applies technology in new, patented ways to achieve unprecedented high performance 160,000...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 9, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A couple of reliable informants tell me the same story: EMC’s Atmos is in a fight for its life. Symm and Clariion sales people are treating the new born product as a competitor, not another EMC product. The dozen or so Atmos sales people – yes, they have a...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 7, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Video |
The video folks have an interesting set of problems: large needs; major bandwidth; time-critical collaboration; lots of metadata; and more. Like budgets. I do some video production myself and empathize. They are today where most of us will be in 10 years: lots of...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 4, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
Joe, how about “Hawaiian shirt Fridays?” Data Domain’s board is has rejected EMC’s all cash offer in favor of NetApp’s enhanced cash + stock offer. But shareholders get the ultimate say. EMC is continuing with its tender offer for...
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