by Robin Harris | Sunday, December 6, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
Virtual machines (VMs) solve the problem of many tiny servers on a big server. VMs are a logical outgrowth of Moore’s Law: server CPUs got bigger, faster, than the apps required. And Windows Server didn’t handle multiple apps well. But the growth of 100...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 13, 2009 | Clusters, Future Tech |
Spending the week in Silicon Valley catching up on storage progress. Short takes: Hyper-V storage virtualization. Software now in beta that dramatically increases the Microsoft virtualization layer’s storage chops: cheap snapshots; high-performance I/O with...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Spent 3 days at fall ’09 SNW. Given the economy my expectations were low. The good news: it was active. The better news: the pace of innovation across storage is accelerating, despite the economy and the drop in VC funding. Make that perhaps because of the drop...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, October 11, 2009 | Backup, Disk, Future Tech |
TDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer optical disk with 320 GB capacity – using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology. Each layer has better than 90% light transmission and writing required no more than 20 mW of the 30 mW Blu-ray...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 14, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
High-end big iron storage arrays have long owned the transaction processing market. The big relational database systems need all the I/O and availability you can give them. But what if we didn’t need big relational databases? What then? RDBMS – RIP? On his...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 10, 2009 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash memory is opening a second front in its war on entrenched storage technologies. So far disks have been taking the heat, but DRAM is the next target. The unannounced Sun F5100 product uses 80 48 GB flash SO-DIMMs to create a 4 TB cache appliance. Cool. But once...
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