by Robin Harris | Monday, March 16, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
The professional journalists will hash out the details on the Cisco’s long-awaited announcement today. Some striking aspects: Memory – as in DRAM – a key point. Chambers and Intel remarked on this several times. The next gen Xeon’s will address...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
In a comment to the previous post, Pete Steege asked for some expansion on Alyssa’s comments about belt & suspenders vs catastrophe avoidance. He thought the concept interesting and I agree: it’s central to the scalability of storage. Alyssa...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Here are my notes from Alyssa Henry’s Keynote on Amazon Web Services. Alyssa is the GM of Amazon’s S3. Not much editing and no slides – yet – to link. Update: slides are here. Alert readers Tim and Justin found the link. Thanks, guys. Update 2:...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 21, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage |
In our last episode we reviewed the paper’s supply and demand drivers. Now we look the investigator’s top 10 obstacles and opportunities for cloud computing. Adoption, growth and business obstacles The paper identifies 10 obstacles and their associated...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Cloud computing: it’s here; it’s real; and it’s cheap UC Berkeley’s Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory has published a paper entitled Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (pdf). It is a spirited and thoughtful...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 22, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Some quick impressions from the SNIA cloud storage symposium. Not everyone believes in economies of scale At least one presenter questioned whether there are economies of scale that justify the higher latency and lower bandwidth of cloud storage. I recently wondered...
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