by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Yes, Virginia, the storage industry will survive the crisis Economists and business leaders generally agree that the current, as yet unofficial, recession will be the worst we have seen since the Great Depression. The credit bubble has popped and we are facing global...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
EMC has announced Hulk/Maui, now known as Atmos. I’m flying to Boston today and don’t have access to EMC’s announcement documents. But I have something better: the papers that provide the theoretical underpinning for Atmos. They provide an in-depth...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 13, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Or a reasonable facsimile thereof If you are interested in Disaster Recovery check out Axxana. They solve the limited synchronous data copy distance problem with a black box designed for data. Concept is simple but getting the details right is hard. The problem...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
NetApp is announcing a deal today: use their de-dup software with a new NetApp filer for VMware storage and they guarantee that you’ll need a minimum of 50% less storage. You can be sure that NetApp considers 50% a low bar – 80% is more like it. Why not...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 22, 2008 | Future Tech |
StorageMojo has been informed that YottaYotta, a storage networking company that EMC invested in a couple of years ago has shut down. EMC reportedly scooped up the IP and key employees. I once worked there and hold stock in the company. The YY web site is not opening....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 18, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
The assumption that underlies much of the interest in cloud computing is that there are economies of scale. If there are not, the extra costs of bandwidth and latency will make cloud computing too costly. Ever since Google demonstrated that massive infrastructures...
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