by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 5, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Video |
The current economic free fall makes one thing clear: the days of solid gold enterprise IT are numbered. Successful IT architects and managers must be expert in wringing the maximum business value from IT architecture and product choices. But how, exactly, do you do...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated quantum holographic storage, shattering long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter. Moving into the sub-atomic realm, they permanently stored 35 bits in the quantum space surrounding a single...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 22, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Some quick impressions from the SNIA cloud storage symposium. Not everyone believes in economies of scale At least one presenter questioned whether there are economies of scale that justify the higher latency and lower bandwidth of cloud storage. I recently wondered...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The world of data storage is changing faster than it has since the mid-90’s amid the rise of hardware arrays and storage networks. Looking back 2008 will be seen as a pivotal year. The big news, in rough ascending order: FCoE Though production-ready products are...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 22, 2008 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
The cloud storage hype has been bothering me for some time (see Are there economies of scale in storage?). Even more irritating than the “storage as a service” meme. The problem with cloud storage is threefold: The availability isn’t as good as a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 8, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Everyone in the data storage industry knows about the gap between I/Os per second of disk drives and processor I/O requirements. But there is a similar problem facing DRAM support of many-core chips. Named “the memory wall” by William Wulf and Sally McKee...
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