by Robin Harris | Monday, December 28, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
2009 has been an eventful year: the Great Recession has driven big changes in enterprise behavior, opening up the field to many new players. Isilon, for one, is reporting healthy growth and they were on the ropes 2 years ago. Those changes are reflected in my take on...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, December 6, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
Virtual machines (VMs) solve the problem of many tiny servers on a big server. VMs are a logical outgrowth of Moore’s Law: server CPUs got bigger, faster, than the apps required. And Windows Server didn’t handle multiple apps well. But the growth of 100...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Xsigo (see-go) produces an I/O consolidation appliance whose elegance impresses. I/O clutter Typical blade servers have several I/O adapters for networks and storage. Today’s multi-CPU – each multi-core – mobo’s need much bandwidth to stay...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 13, 2009 | Clusters, Future Tech |
Spending the week in Silicon Valley catching up on storage progress. Short takes: Hyper-V storage virtualization. Software now in beta that dramatically increases the Microsoft virtualization layer’s storage chops: cheap snapshots; high-performance I/O with...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
A recent post on the dumb disk fallacy argues that enterprise storage isn’t overpriced. That misses the point: enterprise arrays may not be overpriced – but they overshoot most market requirements. That’s why there’s so much innovation in the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Spent 3 days at fall ’09 SNW. Given the economy my expectations were low. The good news: it was active. The better news: the pace of innovation across storage is accelerating, despite the economy and the drop in VC funding. Make that perhaps because of the drop...
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