by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 14, 2010 | Future Tech |
The USENIX conference on File And Storage Technologies is in San Jose, Feb. 23-26. Here’s the blurb: FAST ’10 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
James Hamilton, Amazon architect and a very smart guy, recently blogged about private clouds. In Private Clouds Are Not The Future he argues that economies of scale make public clouds much more efficient than private clouds. I think we agree that several effects make...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | Backup, Future Tech |
IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a technology that, if productized, could give us a 70 TB LTO tape cartridge. Tape isn’t dead – that will be a long time coming – but its vital signs aren’t good, either. Vacuum column, 800bpi tape drives...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
I moderated a panel on cloud storage at Tom Coughlin’s Storage Visions 2010 conference. Some good stuff came out of it. 4 companies presented: IBM, Bycast, Cleversafe and Asankya. IBM, now a services company, talked about the service needs of cloud providers or...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 8, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In no particular order, cool stuff at Storage Visions 2010 and CES. Mobo-mounted SSD. Soligen has announced an SSD that mounts on motherboards. The drive mounts firmly, requires no special cooling and takes little board space. Tiny USB drive. Verbatim has announced a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 28, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
2009 has been an eventful year: the Great Recession has driven big changes in enterprise behavior, opening up the field to many new players. Isilon, for one, is reporting healthy growth and they were on the ropes 2 years ago. Those changes are reflected in my take on...
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