by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 8, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Update: Sadly, it appears I’m wrong. See the update at the bottom of this post and the comments. It was fun while it lasted. And my congrats to the Apple Time Machine UI team still stand. Brilliant. The original post follows. Lest The Suspense Kill You: The...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 4, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Reader Robert Pearson made an interesting comment that I wanted to respond to at greater length. Responding to the recent Architecting the Internet Data Center series, he wrote about the problem of the Enterprise Data Center (EDC): But finally, I have to ask whether...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 3, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Looking at the “Rules of Thumb of Data Engineering” we find that Internet Data Centers have tended to hew closer to the Rules than Enterprise Data Centers. What are the Rules? What are the implications for EDCs? Can IT matter? The exponential changes in...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 2, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Spent an hour talking to Mark Stratton, a VP of startup Crosswalk, about their new product, the iGrid 5100 Intelligent Storage Grid series. So what is an iGrid and why should you care? Initially, Crosswalk is aiming at the HPC market, yet longer term they have designs...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 1, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. IDC-scale Storage Management We’ve seen how IDC storage practices follow the dynamics outlined by Gray and Shenoy. Yet one of the most interesting questions to practitioners has to be storage management. Yes,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 28, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Update: A major power problem at the building where Dreamhost and many other hosting and network firms are colocated kept StorageMojo.com down for several hours Friday. As luck would have it, the failure occurred just...
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