by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 5, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech |
The CEO of a startup told me yesterday that their data mining software is so efficient that it cuts the processing time of a terabyte of data by 75-80%. Surely, he said hopefully, the energy savings alone would drive customer adoption. I don’t think so He got me...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | Disk, Future Tech |
Ever since the HAL 9000 was decommissioned by pulling out its clear plastic storage modules in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey every storage geek has been jonesing for 3D storage. Holographic, multi-layer, whatever. I want capacity and I want it now!...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, August 19, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
You say you want a revolution? Energy efficient data centers are in the news again, with the EPA reporting that data centers use 1.5% of US electricity – almost 6 million home’s worth – and doubling in five years. The numbers don’t include the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Think high-end enterprise requirements Mission critical reliability High performance & scalability “One throat to choke” support Would you expect to find free open-source software crowding out closed proprietary solutions? It is at JPMorgan and other...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
I’ve liked InfiniBand ever since I learned about it at YottaYotta in 2000. The switches are fast and cheap, the latency very low and the bandwidth – 6 GB/sec full-duplex at 12x – stunning. (Cisco has an excellent technical overview introduction...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, July 22, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Still wishing you’d made the Seattle Conference on Scalability last month? There’s a couple of upcoming East Coast meetings that look worthwhile. These are focused on compute intensive cluster computing, not Internet Data Center workloads, but many of the...
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