by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | Architecture, Disk |
After last year’s publication of the Google and CMU papers on the much-higher-than-expected annual failure rates of disk drives, StorageMojo challenged vendors to respond. I said The industry has an excellent opportunity to move to greater transparency with...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 24, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
It’s the disks, right? We’ve heard much about disk failures – as recently as last week as well as last year’s reports from Google and CMU. But what about the rest of the system? In a FAST ’08 paper to be presented this week – Are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Got an interesting press release this morning about a Denver-area company, Atrato, announcing its existence and $18 million in funding. Their mission: Based in Westminster, Colorado, Atrato Inc.’s (www.atrato-Inc.com) mission is to help companies in entertainment,...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 27, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
A particularly odd bit of goofiness has hit the infosphere: cloud/utility computing mania. Nick Carr has written a book – a sign of the Apocalypse . IBM has announced, for the umpteenth time, a variation on utility computing, now cloud computing. Somebody at Sun...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
What could be more appropriate? HP’s lackluster showing in The Info Pro’s survey – see yesterday’s post – reminded me that I’d written about HP shortly after after I’d started blogging (see HP’s Storage Grid-lock:...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 13, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Mighty Google is worried about getting the shaft from telcos. Shouldn’t you be too? Larry Downes imagines the worst Larry Downes’ arguments against net neutrality are button-pushing propaganda designed to inflame, not illuminate. I expect better from a...
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