by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 24, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
It’s the disks, right? We’ve heard much about disk failures – as recently as last week as well as last year’s reports from Google and CMU. But what about the rest of the system? In a FAST ’08 paper to be presented this week – Are...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 18, 2008 | Disk, Enterprise |
Last year’s Google and CMU papers on disk failure rates (see Everything you know about disks is wrong and Google’s Disk Failure Experience) made the points that a) annual disk failure rates are significantly higher than manufacturers admit and b) that...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 2, 2008 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
I wrote a first pass on the Microsoft/Yahoo for ZDnet yesterday morning. Short version: are they nuts? The silliest comment Ray Ozzie was quoted saying: Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
What could be more appropriate? HP’s lackluster showing in The Info Pro’s survey – see yesterday’s post – reminded me that I’d written about HP shortly after after I’d started blogging (see HP’s Storage Grid-lock:...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
A recent study by The Info Pro research firm suggests that some seismic shifts are underway. Is EMC losing top-of-mind recognition in the data center? Are mid-size enterprises more likely to embrace new technology? In an article in Data Storage Connection, TIP talks...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 17, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise |
No, this isn’t about pork bellies In just the last few weeks EMC and IBM have announced their intentions to offer commodity server-based storage. EMC with Hulk/Maui and IBM with XIV. Sun already offers its Thumper product, a high-density server and storage...
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