by Robin Harris | Monday, February 5, 2007 | Enterprise |
Or maybe it is just a really advanced technology Dell has just been anointed a “leader” in mid-range enterprise storage. By Gartner! Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Companies are just as insecure and twitchy as people are, especially public traded ones....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Metadata data structures The basic insight of Isilon’s cluster is that they manage files on a pool of blocks. What we know as RAID levels exist on a per file basis, not per array. Unlike Google’s GFS, which only does file replication, Isilon does file...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 15, 2007 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
The elephant’s graveyard is a metaphor for a place where old ideas go to die. For IT it is the flipside of the consumerization of IT. The seductive glass house As Sun’s troubles over the last few years have emphasized, enterprise IT is a Venus flytrap...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 11, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
Brocade announced it is buying Silverback Systems, makers of a low-cost IP accelerator chip Silverback has been getting some traction, as I learned when I had dinner with a couple of Silverback worthies at SNW. My pity turned to respect When I agreed to meet with...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
The story Steve ISN’T telling at MacWorld Buddhists believe that desire is the cause of suffering. I can’t speak to Steve Job’s religion, but it is clear he refuses to suffer for the enterprise. As one ex-Applet (what does one call them?) stated...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 4, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Cisco’s just-announced acquisition of IronPort for $830 million is a shot across the bow of, among others, EMC’s RSA acquisition. As I wrote about Datacenter Ventures last September A couple of people commented that network security is evolving from...
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