by Robin Harris | Monday, December 10, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Here’s an invite to a Wikibon Peer Incite discussion I’ll be leading Tuesday, 11 December. Call in on Skype and listen and ask questions. EMC’s AR and competitive analysts will be there. Shouldn’t you? If you aren’t hip to Wikibon it is...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Expect to hear a lot more about the SMB segment over the next 6 months. Because the high-end market is sucking wind. NetApp and EMC are both reporting problems in the high-end. HP and IBM don’t break out as much detail but I’m sure they are feeling the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 26, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters |
Was it ever alive? Techies have been excited about grid computing for years. The rest of the world never caught on. They probably never will. Who killed grid? A slide from Sun’s recent HPC meeting at SC’07 implicated marketing: The Grid is Dead… Term...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise |
Joe Tucci let slip, on purpose, that EMC will be coming out with a cluster storage system for backup and archive purposes at a press event this week. Hulk is the code name for the hardware. Maui is the software. Expect to see large green guys in grass skirts at the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
New Product Introduction As part of my campaign to increase the world’s consumption of disk capacity – see yesterday’s post – I’ve developed a new capacity gobbling product. For lack of a better term I call it a video white paper. The...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 15, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
I don’t normally link and run but this is a good article on the Next Big Thing in NFS v4.1. Written by 3 NetApp engineers, Garth Goodson, Sai Susarla, and Rahul Iyer, Standardizing Storage Clusters offers a good overview of what’s new. It’s on the...
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