by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 30, 2011 | Architecture, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The performance increase in individual CPUs is slowing to a crawl. All the easy wins – higher clock speeds, wider datapaths, more DRAM, larger registers and caches, 2-4 cores – have been exploited. Doctor, is there any hope? In the recent PCAST report on...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 24, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Talked to a company last week whose cloud app handles several billion transactions per month on a cluster. Sounds like SSDs could help them but how? In a paper from the latest 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR ’11) researchers...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 29, 2010 | Architecture, Future Tech |
CPU performance and clock speed have leveled out over the last several years. What does this mean for the industry? Moore’s law Strictly speaking, Moore’s law says that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 to 24 months. And that’s...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 22, 2010 | Future Tech |
StorageMojo’s Global HQ is pulling up stakes and traveling to wilds of Palo Alto for the OpenStorage Summit 2010. I’m hoping to hear more about the future of ZFS and other storage stacks. I’ll arrive Tuesday afternoon and will leave Thursday. If...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 18, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
One infrastructure to rule them all discussed the emerging enterprise need for a single, scalable file storage infrastructure. But what infrastructure? Some background to this is last year’s Cloud Quadrant and this year’s Why private clouds are part of the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 4, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
The friendly folks at Scality have put up $100,000 to encourage open source development of useful cloud storage bits. It’s open to anyone, not just grad students. Yup, it’s corporate self-interest at work – Scality sells object-based cloud storage...
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