by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
A regular reader writes: We’re facing a customer problem that requires a distributed global namespace, with support for disconnected operations, geographically appropriate distribution of data, and block-level cacheing for frequently accessed parts of remote files...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 2, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management |
Brief update on the Cisco WebEx conference this morning. I got into the conference late and missed the embargo requirements, so this could be above your pay grade. Also, WebEx wasn’t showing me the slides until late in the presentation. But here’s what I...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 12, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management |
Visited Sun’s undisclosed – not on the building directory – DTrace/Fishworks think tank a couple of months ago. Adam Leventhal, one of the DTrace developers, graciously showed me around the lab and demo’d Fishworks. For latecomers, Adam once...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
In a comment to the previous post, Pete Steege asked for some expansion on Alyssa’s comments about belt & suspenders vs catastrophe avoidance. He thought the concept interesting and I agree: it’s central to the scalability of storage. Alyssa...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Here are my notes from Alyssa Henry’s Keynote on Amazon Web Services. Alyssa is the GM of Amazon’s S3. Not much editing and no slides – yet – to link. Update: slides are here. Alert readers Tim and Justin found the link. Thanks, guys. Update 2:...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Cloud computing: it’s here; it’s real; and it’s cheap UC Berkeley’s Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory has published a paper entitled Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (pdf). It is a spirited and thoughtful...
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