by Robin Harris | Monday, December 3, 2007 | Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Not “knowledge is power” or “information is power.” If you can’t store it, search it and retrieve it, you’ve got bupkis, friend. Massive storage is a double-edged sword And we’ll be forever in sorting it out. Cases in point...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 29, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
There’s a dark horse coming up on the outside Isn’t Sun – and Solaris – almost dead? No and they’re showing quite a bit of life in the storage arena. It is amazing what a $12 billion company can do with a unique strategy and deep...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | Future Tech |
The limits of open source engineering Hang with engineers for a while and griping about marketing is inevitable. The 3 Margarita lunches, the plush globetrotting, the hotties in Marcom and worst of all, they don’t understand the product. Next bench marketing...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 26, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Amazon and Google have demonstrated commercially – as have a number of research projects such as Microsoft’s Boxwood – it is possible to build highly available storage out of commodity servers. The odd thing is that, AFAIK, there is no commercially...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 25, 2007 | Future Tech |
Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has fired back at NetApp’s patent suit against Sun over ZFS, the advanced file system that promises to markedly increase data integrity for Sun and Apple users. From the “best defense is a strong offense” playbook...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 15, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
I’ve been a fan of ZFS since I researched it over a year ago. I’ve also been happy with the progress ZFS is making on OS X. So it was a bit of surprise when I saw (thanks Wes) that MacJournals, a developers web site, was all sideways about it. A good...
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