by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
Is Parascale new or old? There were many good reader questions about Parascale’s announcement. Even though I’ve done some work for them I didn’t know the answers so I invited their CTO, Cameron Bahar, to respond. He sent me a text only email, which...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | Clusters, Information Management |
What about Sun’s acquisition of Cluster File Systems, Inc.? Yawn. CFSI was going out of business. Sun bought the assets, not the company. Good for CFSI employees They get a paycheck from a solvent company. They may even get some sensible marketing. Hey, it could...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
Yay! Parascale (parallel scale) launched its beta Virtual Storage Network this week. I’ve done some consulting for them so I won’t pretend to be objective. I’m a big fan of software-based storage clusters no matter who makes them. GFS-like is more...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise |
Time to get serious, guys TechCrunch and VNUnet are reporting that EMC is buying online backup provider Mozy for $76 million. Neither EMC or Mozy has issued any confirmation, so who knows if it is real. But let’s assume it is. Puzzled? This is a good fit for EMC...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 10, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
I’m always curious about the context of the communications as well as the content. The Bush administration, for example, has been very disciplined in releasing bad news late Friday in the reasonable expectation that most people won’t ever hear about it....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
I’ve liked InfiniBand ever since I learned about it at YottaYotta in 2000. The switches are fast and cheap, the latency very low and the bandwidth – 6 GB/sec full-duplex at 12x – stunning. (Cisco has an excellent technical overview introduction...
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