by Robin Harris | Monday, November 5, 2012 | Cloud computing & storage |
The top analysts at StorageMojo packing up their saddlebags for the long ride to the International Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California this week. I’ll be moderating a panel discussion Tuesday at 210pm on Object Storage for Big Data Panel: Revolutionary Storage...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 2, 2012 | Cloud computing & storage, Information Management |
All the talk about Big Data tends to devolve to media & entertainment, biotech, streaming web data and geophysical. But Big Data is arriving in places we don’t often consider. Such as Formula 1 racing, the rest-of-the-world’s NASCAR, where racing team...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Information Management |
Walking the floor of the SNW-Europe expo mostly meant seeing companies and products already familiar in the US. But there was one surprising exception: Fast LTA. The LTA stands for Long Term Archiving. FAST LTA AG, based in Munich, is headed by founder Matthias Zahn,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
Research (see Nightmare on DIMM street) a few years ago found that DRAM error rates were hundreds to thousands of times higher than vendors had led us believe. But what is the nature of those errors? Are they soft errors – as is commonly believed – where a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
Storage is cheap and getting cheaper. But at scale it will never be free. At scale – today, petabytes; in a decade, dozenss of petabytes – even a few per cent savings amounts to real dollars. Strategies that made sense 10 years – such as triple...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 23, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
The post-RAID (noRAID) era has begun. While RAID arrays aren’t going away, the growth is elsewhere, and corporate investment follows growth. Why now? There are now architecturally superior alternatives to RAID that are lower cost. But you could argue that the...
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