by Robin Harris | Friday, July 17, 2009 | Clusters, Marketing |
Another scrappy startup bites the dust HP announced this morning that it is buying IBRIX, one of the up and comers for scale-out cluster file storage. They expect to close the transaction in 30 days. The IBRIX secret sauce IBRIX was founded in 2000 with IP from Yale...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 29, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
As the economics of data storage push more and more data onto disks, the energy efficiency of data storage is ever more critical. Storage is anti-entropic, so keeping bits organized requires energy. How can we minimize that energy input? Data cooling is the major...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 7, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Video |
The video folks have an interesting set of problems: large needs; major bandwidth; time-critical collaboration; lots of metadata; and more. Like budgets. I do some video production myself and empathize. They are today where most of us will be in 10 years: lots of...
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...
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 | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The world of data storage is changing faster than it has since the mid-90’s amid the rise of hardware arrays and storage networks. Looking back 2008 will be seen as a pivotal year. The big news, in rough ascending order: FCoE Though production-ready products are...
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