by Robin Harris | Monday, November 26, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters |
Was it ever alive? Techies have been excited about grid computing for years. The rest of the world never caught on. They probably never will. Who killed grid? A slide from Sun’s recent HPC meeting at SC’07 implicated marketing: The Grid is Dead… Term...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 19, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Nexenta is the next open source storage company – and the first to use ZFS. They are aiming at the enterprise storage market for 2nd tier storage. I talked to Evan Powell, the CEO last week, after a StorageMojo reader and Nexenta user, Joe Little, tipped me off...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | Architecture |
Link and run Came across a great one-long-web-page intro to distributed systems design on Google Code. If you work on a distributed systems project, everyone on the product team ought to at least understand what’s on this page. That means marketing, tech...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 15, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
I’ve been a fan of ZFS since I researched it over a year ago. I’ve also been happy with the progress ZFS is making on OS X. So it was a bit of surprise when I saw (thanks Wes) that MacJournals, a developers web site, was all sideways about it. A good...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 15, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
I don’t normally link and run but this is a good article on the Next Big Thing in NFS v4.1. Written by 3 NetApp engineers, Garth Goodson, Sai Susarla, and Rahul Iyer, Standardizing Storage Clusters offers a good overview of what’s new. It’s on the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
Is Parascale new or old? There were many good reader questions about Parascale’s announcement. Even though I’ve done some work for them I didn’t know the answers so I invited their CTO, Cameron Bahar, to respond. He sent me a text only email, which...
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