by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Over on O’Reilly radar, Nat Torkington, does a neat riff on the enterprise SOA movement. He likens enterprise IT to a stern father: . . . with strict rules, transgressors to be punished;. . . while the Web is: . . . the nurturing parent (the API provider) who...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 1, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
What, if any, is the value of multi-year storage uptime? Xiotech and Atrato promise 5 and 3 year uninterrupted service on their new arrays. Now it is time to ask, as some commenters have, so what? After all, enterprise data centers are already well-equipped to deal...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 20, 2008 | Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
After 8 years of hard slogging the folks at InPhase are ready to ship the world’s first holographic storage system. As StorageMojo noted 2 years ago: InPhase is claiming they will ship drives with removable holographic disks with 300GB capacity and 20Mbps...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 13, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
What’s behind the hype? Congrats to the Xiotech team on generating the most interest at SNW. Their demos were crowded with the curious. Their claims bordered on the implausible, but the credibility of the engineering team kept derision in the corners. I talked...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
It looks like Xiotech is going to cop the “Best Announcement at Spring SNW ’08” prize. See the nifty flash intro. I did speak to Ellen Lary, Engineering VP last night after going through their mobbed booth. Later today I have an appointment with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 31, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise |
The 2nd installment of an occasional feature . . . A reader writes: I think your input would be valuable in helping me make a decision on storage for my company. I’ve done loads of research and I’m fairly certain I have good players narrowed down, but have...
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