by Robin Harris | Sunday, December 24, 2006 | Enterprise, Price Lists |
Joerg, over at c0t0d0s0.org pointed to a good article by Paul Murphy about the Economics of ZFS over at ZDnet. He is responding to another article that proposed to estimate the OLTP price/performance of various boxes, including Solaris 10/ZFS boxes, without taking...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 8, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The redoubtable Kevin Closson has a post entitled “Introducing the “Unstructured Data Administratorâ€. In it he refers to a study put out by the Independent Oracle Users Group called “Managing the Storage Equation: The Converging Roles of Data and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 7, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
So I sent a note off to the nice folks at HP who wrote this paper, alerting them to their elevation to storage rock stars, and one of them wrote me back to alert me to a newer version of the paper. The newer version is less sprightly yet has a lot more information, so...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
One of the holy books of the Mammon-worshipping Church of the MBA is Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. One of the things I like about Smith is his intellectual ju-jitsu on the issue of the essential amorality of markets. Sure, Smith says, the people buying and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 5, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
FAB: the software This is the good part. Each brick runs three pieces of software: The Coordinator that receives client requests and manages reads and writes The Block-manager that does the actual reading and writing of – you guessed it! – disk blocks And...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 4, 2006 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
OK, executives at EMC, HP, IBM and Microsoft, do you really want to make a difference for your company, your fellow citizens and your country? Here’s your chance. It won’t be easy or quick, but if you are as good as you want us to believe, here’s...
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