by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Disk, Future Tech |
The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will give us 10 TB 2.5″ disks in the next decade. But then what? Optical protein-based quantum dots could be the answer....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Got an interesting press release this morning about a Denver-area company, Atrato, announcing its existence and $18 million in funding. Their mission: Based in Westminster, Colorado, Atrato Inc.’s (www.atrato-Inc.com) mission is to help companies in entertainment,...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 10, 2008 | Future Tech |
Join me in San Jose, CA, February 26–29, 2008, for the latest in File And Storage Technologies. Top researchers from academe and industry – NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, Data Domain, HP, Panasas, Yahoo, Seagate and more – will present their latest research....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 5, 2008 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash may be getting all the attention, but the boffins are working hard to ensure we have options to flash. We need those options because flash has some serious limitations, like random write performance and density, that we may not be able to overcome. On the other...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 2, 2008 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
I wrote a first pass on the Microsoft/Yahoo for ZDnet yesterday morning. Short version: are they nuts? The silliest comment Ray Ozzie was quoted saying: Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 27, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
A particularly odd bit of goofiness has hit the infosphere: cloud/utility computing mania. Nick Carr has written a book – a sign of the Apocalypse . IBM has announced, for the umpteenth time, a variation on utility computing, now cloud computing. Somebody at Sun...
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