by Robin Harris | Friday, March 28, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Future Tech |
6 weeks ago StorageMojo covered the leaving-stealth-mode non-announce of Atrato’s new storage box. I spoke to Dan McCormick, Atrato’s co-founder and CEO a few days ago for an update. They’ll have more details at SNW. But here’s what I found...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 27, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Mobile computing. Cloud computing. Client-server computing. Green computing. A new mainframe. A 9U supercomputer. Scale-out clusters. High-bandwidth RAID controllers. Multi-core processors. Massive memory servers. Facebook. YouTube. Twitter. Blogging. MySpace. Google...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 23, 2008 | Architecture, SAN, FC |
Back in ’96, when I was flogging FC networks for Sun under NDA, the most common objection was “I don’t want another layer to manage.” Despite that FC became successful in big enterprise IT shops. But the objection is still valid and a major...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 16, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech, Off-Topic, SAN, FC |
The P4P working group demo’d their work Friday at the Distributed Computing Industry Association show in New York. Not only did they show 2-3x faster downloads, but they also cut the average number of inter-metro hops – the expensive kind – from over...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 14, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Disk |
It didn’t win Best Paper honors at FAST 08 – IIRC it was An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (the link is to the StorageMojo review of that excellent paper last month) but I really like the thinking behind Pergamum: Replacing Tape with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 3, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Security & Public Policy |
I had a con call with Chris Gladwin and Russ Kennedy of Cleversafe a couple of weeks ago. They’ve come to market with a product line that seeks to deliver: Massive scalability to meet growing digital content requirements Unprecedented Security and Privacy for...
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