by Robin Harris | Monday, May 7, 2012 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Spoke to Chris Gladwin, founder and CEO of Cleversafe at NAB 2012. Cleversafe had stopped communicating a few years ago – usually a bad sign – so an update was long overdue. When last heard from, Cleversafe had an ISP/MSP target market, offered an...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Amazon Web Services architect James Hamilton has been posting on network issues for over a year and researching them much longer. As Ethernet becomes the de facto SAN technology, his views become more relevant to the larger storage market. Critique Part of Mr....
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 12, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
VMworld is the best storage show I’ve seen in years. VMware’s severe storage problems leave users hungry for solutions – and your friendly neighborhood storage industry is happy to oblige. It’s almost as if VMware were owned by a storage...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 5, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage |
Running – or planning to run – some bigtime Java apps? A Silicon Valley startup named Cumulogic is looking for a few good beta testers to help them wring out their Java Paas. Their ideal tester can use a Java PaaS running on either vSphere, Eucalyptus or...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 25, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Management |
Commenters on the last post – Open source storage array – helped crystallize an idea that’s been lurking for years: comparing disk storage hardware on per-slot price. The Backblaze box, which costs about $50/slot, got a comment that said, in effect,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Most business files are only opened a few times, yet remain valuable enough to keep on line, just in case. That cold data is normally stored on high-performance, high-price NAS boxes at $$/GB. Why? 2 years ago Backblaze, an online backup provider, open-sourced their...
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