by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Over on O’Reilly radar, Nat Torkington, does a neat riff on the enterprise SOA movement. He likens enterprise IT to a stern father: . . . with strict rules, transgressors to be punished;. . . while the Web is: . . . the nurturing parent (the API provider) who...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 19, 2008 | Architecture, Information Management |
Can single-user OS X be far behind? Here’s the official Apple announcement: For business-critical server deployments, Snow Leopard Server adds read and write support for the high-performance, 128-bit ZFS file system, which includes advanced features such as...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 16, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
I’m relaxing in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington today, under the gray skies of the coldest June in almost 100 years. The fire in the wood-burning stove and Frank’s strong coffee provide the good cheer. Temporal compare My comments are more...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
I wrote a short piece on ZDnet about Los Alamos National Labs new Cell Broadband Engine based supercomputer, Roadrunner. With ~14k v.3 Cell processors – an earlier version powers the PS3 game console – and another ~7k dual core Opterons, the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 12, 2008 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Herewith continues NAND – an engineer’s perspective. Any you thought marketing guys were wordy! The quoted bits are from the earlier StorageMojo post Notebook flash SSD market: fantasy or mirage?. Teil eins ist hier. Begin part zwei . . . tested...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 1, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
What, if any, is the value of multi-year storage uptime? Xiotech and Atrato promise 5 and 3 year uninterrupted service on their new arrays. Now it is time to ask, as some commenters have, so what? After all, enterprise data centers are already well-equipped to deal...
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