by Robin Harris | Monday, February 15, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage |
Isilon reached an important milestone this month: their first profitable quarter and an annual run rate of about $150 million a year — in only 10 years. But what if I told you there was another Seattle-area storage company on target to do $500 million in only 5...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 8, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
MapReduce and its open source version, Hadoop, are parallel data analysis tools. A few lines of code can drive massive data reductions across thousands of nodes. Cool. Powerful though it is, Hadoop isn’t a database. Classic structured data analysis of the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
James Hamilton, Amazon architect and a very smart guy, recently blogged about private clouds. In Private Clouds Are Not The Future he argues that economies of scale make public clouds much more efficient than private clouds. I think we agree that several effects make...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Verari Systems is now Verari Technologies. The company’s assets were purchased by the original founder, Dave Driggers, after an attempt last year to get another round of financing foundered. They’ve had some success with their containerized compute/storage...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, SOHO/SMB |
A reader writes: I found your blog after searching for storage alternatives. I have to say, its really impressive and has helped me a lot so far. I was wondering if you could offer some advice. We run an online version control service. Currently we are hosted on a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
I moderated a panel on cloud storage at Tom Coughlin’s Storage Visions 2010 conference. Some good stuff came out of it. 4 companies presented: IBM, Bycast, Cleversafe and Asankya. IBM, now a services company, talked about the service needs of cloud providers or...
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