by Robin Harris | Monday, April 9, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Dr. Hetzler pointed me at this In a 30 second explanation of NAND flash, Steve concluded by saying “read the application notes!” In my dazed state that sounded reasonable. Now that I’ve spent a few hours poring over them I’m thinking I should...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 4, 2007 | Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Venturing forth from the Shire I went back to Silicon Valley last week to see if I could still deal with more than three people in a room. Living in a remote mountain valley and working at home, I don’t get out much. Visited Cisco and some clients. A good trip....
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 25, 2007 | Future Tech |
Guess what? There were TWO best papers at FAST ’07 I wrote about “Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You? (see Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong). So it is equal time for the other the other “best...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 16, 2007 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Virtualization is the answer. Now, what was the question? The drumbeat for virtualization as the answer for the storage world’s ills continues unabated. Yet I wonder if we are virtualizing the right things and, if we are, doing it in the right way. I got into...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 15, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The Object of My Affection Why do we manage blocks? That construct is getting old. You might say we manage blocks because disks have blocks and we build storage out of disks. But what if disks didn’t have blocks? No more block management. We’d simply...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
New technologies tend to get their start as business tools, because if you can show them the numbers businesses will buy cranky, expensive and barely workable solutions. Such as today’s enterprise data and storage systems. What is the “Consumerization of...
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