by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
This morning Woven Systems announced their new 10 Gbit Ethernet switch. I named Woven “coolest hardware” at last years Datacenter Ventures conference. Harry Quackenboss, their CEO, promised they’d have the switch working in six months. Well, here it...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 16, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Last week my friend and fellow storage blogger Mark Farley took me to task for posting Desktop RAID is a bad idea. He wrote in his EqualLogic blog post: Two posts ago I sent my props to Robin Harris (Storagemojo), now I’m feeling the bloggers biteback. Robin...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 4, 2007 | Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Venturing forth from the Shire I went back to Silicon Valley last week to see if I could still deal with more than three people in a room. Living in a remote mountain valley and working at home, I don’t get out much. Visited Cisco and some clients. A good trip....
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 12, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
A shot across the bow HP’s acquisition of Polyserve is a ~$250 million (my SWAG, we’ll have to see what, if anything, gets reported on the 10K) bet on the future of storage. And I think it is a good one. HP needed to do something. Their external storage...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Already did the outside skinny I talked to Sujal Patel, founder and CTO of Isilon, last week to learn more about Isilon. As I’d mentioned in my posts on the company I was surprised that there wasn’t more technical information about the products on their...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Update II: NetApp has responded. I’m hoping other vendors will as well. Which do you believe? Costly FC and SCSI drives are more reliable than cheap SATA drives. RAID 5 is safe because the odds of two drives failing in the same RAID set are so low. After infant...
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