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 | Monday, May 18, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing |
Until the 1980s the computer industry was characterized by a vertical integration of the major players. They produced their own CPUs, operating systems, applications, networks, peripherals, interconnects, and in some cases clusters. With the advent of the PC and...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | Architecture, SOHO/SMB |
Direct attached storage may catch on PCI-e DAS is getting traction in the media world. At least a dozen vendors – all smaller – were showing it, and customers were responding. JMR’s BlueStor is promising over 4 GB/sec with PCI-e attach. In a world...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 17, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Massive economies of scale make cloud computing and storage inevitable. But if the scale required for economic clouds exceeds the capacity requirements of the largest enterprises “private clouds” won’t fly against their public counterparts. Some cool...
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