by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 21, 2010 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Just checked out the papers for this year’s FAST ’10 in San Jose this week. They are impressive. Here are a few that caught my eye with quotes, mostly from the abstracts, but sometimes from the results. SRCMap: Energy Proportional Storage using Dynamic...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
James Hamilton, Amazon architect and a very smart guy, recently blogged about private clouds. In Private Clouds Are Not The Future he argues that economies of scale make public clouds much more efficient than private clouds. I think we agree that several effects make...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, SOHO/SMB |
A reader writes: I found your blog after searching for storage alternatives. I have to say, its really impressive and has helped me a lot so far. I was wondering if you could offer some advice. We run an online version control service. Currently we are hosted on a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
I moderated a panel on cloud storage at Tom Coughlin’s Storage Visions 2010 conference. Some good stuff came out of it. 4 companies presented: IBM, Bycast, Cleversafe and Asankya. IBM, now a services company, talked about the service needs of cloud providers or...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 28, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
2009 has been an eventful year: the Great Recession has driven big changes in enterprise behavior, opening up the field to many new players. Isilon, for one, is reporting healthy growth and they were on the ropes 2 years ago. Those changes are reflected in my take on...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 8, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
But not that kind of science project. This is the real deal, already running near a petabyte, needing to upgrade and looking for answers. Sounds like they’ll be spending real money real soon. I edited for brevity and asked the writer to monitor the comments to...
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