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 | Monday, March 16, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
The professional journalists will hash out the details on the Cisco’s long-awaited announcement today. Some striking aspects: Memory – as in DRAM – a key point. Chambers and Intel remarked on this several times. The next gen Xeon’s will address...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 12, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management |
Visited Sun’s undisclosed – not on the building directory – DTrace/Fishworks think tank a couple of months ago. Adam Leventhal, one of the DTrace developers, graciously showed me around the lab and demo’d Fishworks. For latecomers, Adam once...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Fusion-io had the PCI-e flash card market all to themselves for the longest time – but no more. Texas Memory Systems, a stalwart in the DRAM-based SSD market, has announced a new product, the RAMSan-20, a 450 GB SSD on a full height, full length PCI-e card. With...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Cloud computing: it’s here; it’s real; and it’s cheap UC Berkeley’s Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory has published a paper entitled Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (pdf). It is a spirited and thoughtful...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 5, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Video |
The current economic free fall makes one thing clear: the days of solid gold enterprise IT are numbered. Successful IT architects and managers must be expert in wringing the maximum business value from IT architecture and product choices. But how, exactly, do you do...
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