by Robin Harris | Friday, January 8, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In no particular order, cool stuff at Storage Visions 2010 and CES. Mobo-mounted SSD. Soligen has announced an SSD that mounts on motherboards. The drive mounts firmly, requires no special cooling and takes little board space. Tiny USB drive. Verbatim has announced a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 28, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
2009 has been an eventful year: the Great Recession has driven big changes in enterprise behavior, opening up the field to many new players. Isilon, for one, is reporting healthy growth and they were on the ropes 2 years ago. Those changes are reflected in my take on...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, December 6, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
Virtual machines (VMs) solve the problem of many tiny servers on a big server. VMs are a logical outgrowth of Moore’s Law: server CPUs got bigger, faster, than the apps required. And Windows Server didn’t handle multiple apps well. But the growth of 100...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Spent 3 days at fall ’09 SNW. Given the economy my expectations were low. The good news: it was active. The better news: the pace of innovation across storage is accelerating, despite the economy and the drop in VC funding. Make that perhaps because of the drop...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, October 10, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A 2½ year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought — a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. Another piece of hallowed Conventional Wisdom bites the dust. Google...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 28, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
Thinking about cloud Amid the hype and glitz on cloud storage and computing it can be difficult to separate the essential from the transitory. The word scale is abused; APIs are debated; business models are in flux: and new varieties of cloud infrastructure are being...
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