by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
The CEO of a – I’m guessing here – specialized Internet services company wrote StorageMojo because of the recent IBRIX acquisition. Here’s what he asked, edited for space. We’re IBRIX customers, and we’re building out a High...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 9, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A couple of reliable informants tell me the same story: EMC’s Atmos is in a fight for its life. Symm and Clariion sales people are treating the new born product as a competitor, not another EMC product. The dozen or so Atmos sales people – yes, they have a...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 8, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage |
And commercial viability In a ZDnet blog post Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft I discussed the results of a study that TwinStrata did comparing the costs and availability of Google Apps and Microsoft Office/Exchange. An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 17, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Massive economies of scale make cloud computing and storage inevitable. But if the scale required for economic clouds exceeds the capacity requirements of the largest enterprises “private clouds” won’t fly against their public counterparts. Some cool...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
A regular reader writes: We’re facing a customer problem that requires a distributed global namespace, with support for disconnected operations, geographically appropriate distribution of data, and block-level cacheing for frequently accessed parts of remote files...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 20, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise |
On my ZDnet blog I had some fun with the Cisco announcement. In Cisco’s bong-sized cloud I opined that the 32 server limit of VMware’s VMFS means that The platform they’re promoting is tiny by cloud infrastructure standards. Perfect for a dorm room...
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