by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Boxwood, like Gaul, is divided into three parts Boxwood is structured as several interdependent layered services. Sounds good, but what does it mean? First, recall what we want from our ideal storage infrastructure: Fault tolerance – which means redundancy and,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 30, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
How can Microsoft’s MSN compete with Google’s powerful cost advantage in large scale web services? After all, Google’s infrastructure is a clean sheet design, intended to be the world’s most scalable Internet Data Center. And Microsoft is going...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Open source software (OSS) has had a profound effect on several software markets, such operating systems (Linux, OpenSolaris and the various BSD Uni), webservers (Apache), databases (MySQL), blogging (WordPress and others) and a number of others. The benefits to users...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 | Enterprise |
The redoubtable John Webster, storage analyst extraordinaire at Illuminata, penned a short defense of Information Lifecycle Management last week. It was so humble that I just wanted to take this frail orphan named ILM home and feed it sparrow’s milk with an...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Gear6 goes semi-public today with their new network storage cache, saying what the product does, but not releasing configuration, pricing and other key details until later. So some of my questions, and probably yours, remain unanswered. Here’s the Cliff Notes...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 16, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
In part I some of the reasons the current model of enterprise IT is broken were explored. In the concluding part, I make a radical suggestion about how IT can be fixed – and why Internet Data Centers are better positioned to implement the fix and perhaps force...
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