by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Concall today with Bryan Cantrill, the smart guy behind Dtrace. Dtrace was the engine behind Sun’s Oracle’s Fishworks server and application monitor. Dtrace has also been incorporated into OS X. Bryan left Oracle last week and started Monday at Joyent the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 16, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Video |
Cloud computing gets a bad rap because it can’t replace corporate data centers for mission critical apps. But new computing paradigms never do that: it is the new capabilities they enable that drive adoption. Case in point: transcoding. Why? Anyone who shoots...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 9, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Given how hard it is to save data you want (see The Universe hates your data) to keep, losing data on the web should be easy. It isn’t, because it gets stored so many places in its travels. Problem But the power of the web means that silliness can now be stored...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Shouting at a disk drive will cause it to stop. But what about the constant nagging they get in busy data centers? That’s a bigger problem. Bad, bad, bad vibrations The use of consumer-grade SATA drives in the enterprise raises the concern. A 2005 study,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
One of the highlights of the Gestalt IT tour was a half day on Cisco’s UCS and associated products. But this was the real deal: an experienced and technical Cisco presenter going deep for a crowd of skeptical IT pros. Digging into the details would reveal the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 5, 2010 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Spoke to Don Basile and Matt Barletta of Violin Memory Friday. I’ve been talking to Violin for the last couple of years, and while I liked the technology was skeptical of their ability to commercialize it. That was then. Today Violin announced a multi-million...
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