by Robin Harris | Monday, May 1, 2006 | Enterprise |
HP has an entertaining video of a rifle shot through an XP12000 array. I can’t tell if the narrator’s heavy gravitas delivery is meant to be slightly over the top, or if it really is humorless. But they have me wondering. Over at The Storage Network blog...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 29, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
They’ve come out of nowhere and in a few short years built one of the world’s largest always on data centers supporting data and compute intensive applications such as search, mail, chat, mapping, blogging and much more. They roll out new applications...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 28, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Security & Public Policy |
EMC’s GM of the Grid & Utility Computing, Ian Baird, mentioned at EMC World in Boston this week that EMC had invested in distributed caching technology developed by YottaYotta, a Canadian startup, for their “Grid Storage” strategic direction....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 27, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
Some /. readers (OK, most) expressed enormous skepticism about 25x data compression. So StorageMojo has dug deeper, looking at some patents, to get a better handle on the technology. Let’s start with why so many people believe 25x is impossible. Though not often...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 24, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Maybe I’m late to the party but I just noticed that Hitachi is touting RVS, Rotational Vibration Safeguard (pdf). Since all disks in disk drives rotate, all drives have had rotational vibration from day one. So what’s new? Is this the equivalent of...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 20, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
StorageMojo’s /.’d post on 25x data compression invited much derision and a few knowledgeable comments. One of those comments pointed to Data Domain who claim up to 50x compression on “. . . data sets in certain use cases . . . .” Obviously the...
Recent Comments