by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Data center folks are conservative I was on a panel a couple of months ago with analysts from big firms touting deep data center research. My point then, and now, was simply “Data center management can tell you what they plan, but they can’t forecast...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 18, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management |
I moderate all comments on StorageMojo and it is one of my favorite jobs. Moderation has turned into an unlooked-for pleasure, as I get to see the many insightful comments before everyone else. This morning’s came from David Vellante, who was at IDC for years....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 14, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash is weirder than you know – so keep reading – and you’ll know I think I already mentioned that the flash guys refer to “programming” flash when a storage guy like moi would say “write.” But they have a point. Flash is...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 | Future Tech, Information Management, Off-Topic |
But we knew it all along Infoworld published a follow-up clarifying Apple’s inclusion of ZFS in Mac OS X 10.5.0. And doing quite a bit of tap dancing. Apple now says that the ZFS file system will be available in the forthcoming Mac operating system, sort of....
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 11, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
I’m pumped! Next week I’m flying to Seattle to attend a one day conference on scalability hosted by Google’s Kirkland office. It is a great set of presentations with leading edge practitioners. Here’s the agenda, presenters and edited...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, June 9, 2007 | Future Tech, Information Management |
Make HFS to ZFS conversions fast and painless Let’s say you wanted to convert millions of computers to a new file system. How would you do it? Back up, reformat the disk, and then reinstall everything? Or run a handy file system converter that changes the file...
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