by Robin Harris | Friday, September 7, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Or maybe shoots self in foot NetApp announced on Wednesday that it was suing Sun for patent infringement for ZFS. Sun immediately announced it would indemnify customers against NetApp’s claims, so there is no reason for, let’s say, Apple to stop work on...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 30, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports on a federal whistle-blower suit that shines light on a high-tech industry practice that I’ll bet most customers don’t know about. Here’s the deal. Tech companies sign agreements to cooperate...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 27, 2007 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Solid state disks have been around for decades and failed to make the IT mainstream. Why is that about to change? I did a stint of SSD marketing at DEC in the early 90’s. Then, as now, SSDs offered low I/O latency and high IOPS capacity at an astronomical $/GB....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
No, not another post about green IT Mention green to most CFO’s and they’ll assume you’re talking about the color of money. Which is exactly the language of a Wall Street Journal article (subscription required I fear) on Sir Richard Branson’s...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, August 19, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
You say you want a revolution? Energy efficient data centers are in the news again, with the EPA reporting that data centers use 1.5% of US electricity – almost 6 million home’s worth – and doubling in five years. The numbers don’t include the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 9, 2007 | Enterprise, Information Management |
I’ve been ranting about data loss on Storage Bits. Data loss makes me irate because I see regular folks who know nothing about computers struggling with the fallout and it is so unnecessary. The stimulus was a fine PhD thesis IRON File Systems (pdf) by Vijayan...
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