by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Concall today with Bryan Cantrill, the smart guy behind Dtrace. Dtrace was the engine behind Sun’s Oracle’s Fishworks server and application monitor. Dtrace has also been incorporated into OS X. Bryan left Oracle last week and started Monday at Joyent the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 26, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise |
A commenter recently asked Archivas was focused on archive, do you expect the new solution to sustain performance for primary storage as well? Which is a good question, if you know what “primary” means. Do we? Tiers of a clown 10 years ago we all agreed on...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 30, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Should a Unified Computing System be able to scale to meet growing application needs? Of course, but the network must scale with it. The problem: Cisco’s enterprise architecture doesn’t scale. And that isn’t only the StorageMojo take. Gartner VP Joe...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
One of the highlights of the Gestalt IT tour was a half day on Cisco’s UCS and associated products. But this was the real deal: an experienced and technical Cisco presenter going deep for a crowd of skeptical IT pros. Digging into the details would reveal the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 8, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
Patrick Eaton, the Berkeley PhD. who architected EMC’s Atmos cloud storage product, left EMC about 3 months ago. He joined a Boston-area search firm, Endeca, where he is a software architect working on a team to scale Endeca’s core MDEX search engine. Dr....
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 5, 2010 | Architecture, Disk, Future Tech |
StorageMojo’s best paper of FAST ’10 is Understanding Latent Sector Errors and How to Protect Against Them (pdf) by Bianca Schroeder, Sotirios Damouras, and Phillipa Gill, University of Toronto. The paper builds on research and a dataset that StorageMojo...
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