by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
This morning Woven Systems announced their new 10 Gbit Ethernet switch. I named Woven “coolest hardware” at last years Datacenter Ventures conference. Harry Quackenboss, their CEO, promised they’d have the switch working in six months. Well, here it...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 16, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Last week my friend and fellow storage blogger Mark Farley took me to task for posting Desktop RAID is a bad idea. He wrote in his EqualLogic blog post: Two posts ago I sent my props to Robin Harris (Storagemojo), now I’m feeling the bloggers biteback. Robin...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Who said consumerization of IT would be all good? I certainly didn’t. It is happening and you either get with the program or . . . . Case in point I was doing an on line search for the zone info on hard drives. App note? Disk manual? Nope. Only these info-free...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 5, 2007 | Backup, Enterprise |
I wish I could report that one of the big guys stepped up . . . Instead, Jon Bach of Puget Custom Computers in suburban Seattle offered his company’s data on his blog post titled Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea. It is a good post and well worth reading in...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 15, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The Object of My Affection Why do we manage blocks? That construct is getting old. You might say we manage blocks because disks have blocks and we build storage out of disks. But what if disks didn’t have blocks? No more block management. We’d simply...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 | Backup, Enterprise, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
Intel last week provided a window into just how screwed up even wealthy, forward looking companies are around document retention for pending litigation. In the law biz these policies go under the general term of “litigation hold”. Intel is in Federal court...
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