by Robin Harris | Monday, August 6, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Seattle-based F5 networks announced today their plan to acquire Massachusetts-based Acopia Networks. I think it is an interesting tie-up. Is storage just another network service? A trick question. Of course storage is, and of course, is isn’t. Networks...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Cumulative distribution functions The paper describes three large-scale Google workloads: Websearch: high request throughput and large data processing requirements for each request – IIRC 70-100 MB of data searched per request – with variable demand by...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 27, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
A reader wrote me a note that asks a question that I think is on the minds of many data center folks. He said it well himself, so I’ll quote liberally, starting with the compliment. I really enjoy reading your blogs! One thing I’ve notices in your blog,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 26, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Power is probably the least understood/most widely used technology in computing. We don’t understand it, – what is a ground loop?- we rarely measure it, and its behavior is a mystery. Labels are no help either. My computer spec is “100-240 V...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 5, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Google has pummeled Yahoo into near-obscurity: the early search leader – the Google of the 1990’s – Yahoo’s market cap is a fraction of GOOG’s while their search share is a distant second. It is easy to forget that Yahoo is actually a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Data center folks are conservative I was on a panel a couple of months ago with analysts from big firms touting deep data center research. My point then, and now, was simply “Data center management can tell you what they plan, but they can’t forecast...
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