by Robin Harris | Monday, March 22, 2010 | Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The historic Health Care Reform that Congress passed last night puts America on a path to be competitive with every other industrialized nation. But it is good for the storage industry as well. Why? Electronic medical records As I noted back in ’06: Medical...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 5, 2010 | Architecture, Disk, Future Tech |
StorageMojo’s best paper of FAST ’10 is Understanding Latent Sector Errors and How to Protect Against Them (pdf) by Bianca Schroeder, Sotirios Damouras, and Phillipa Gill, University of Toronto. The paper builds on research and a dataset that StorageMojo...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | Disk, Future Tech |
Late last year Sun engineer, DTrace co-inventor, flash architect and ZFS developer Adam Leventhal, analyzed RAID 6 as a viable data protection strategy. He lays it out in the Association of Computing Machinery’s Queue magazine, in the article Triple-Parity RAID...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | Future Tech, Information Management |
The official best paper winner at FAST ’10 isn’t one of the several I excerpted. I’m listening to the presentation as I write – trying live blogging – while following a fast talking presenter. The winning paper is quFiles: The right file...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 21, 2010 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Just checked out the papers for this year’s FAST ’10 in San Jose this week. They are impressive. Here are a few that caught my eye with quotes, mostly from the abstracts, but sometimes from the results. SRCMap: Energy Proportional Storage using Dynamic...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 19, 2010 | Backup, Future Tech |
After 9 years and $100,000,000, holographic storage pioneer InPhase Technologies has shut down without ever shipping a product. Their office building was also seized for non-payment of back taxes. They assured me that the product would ship in May, 2008. It...
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