by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 | Future Tech |
Not so easy I could do it, though ZFS is the übercool Solaris file system cum volume manager cum software RAID now being ported to Apple’s Leopard (see ZFS On Mac: Now All But Official and ZFS: Threat or Menace?. Lots of skepticism from people who can’t...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 23, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The Financial Times published an article that predicts Prices of flash memory chips have plunged to a critical “tipping-point†that could see them replacing hard discs as the storage technology of choice on laptop computers within two years. Since everyone seems...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 | Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Geeky computer guy that I am, I have my machine instrumented with programs (Mac users: MenuMeters) that tell me all kinds of useless information. Network usage, memory usage, CPU load and, of course, disk activity. Mostly all this stuff just tells me that the machine...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 12, 2007 | Future Tech |
In all humility, I’m the best competitive analyst I’ve ever met. I’m sure there are people who are better than me, but I’ve never met them, so . . . . For example, despite some wobbling, I called ZFS on Mac months before anyone else I’m...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
The story Steve ISN’T telling at MacWorld Buddhists believe that desire is the cause of suffering. I can’t speak to Steve Job’s religion, but it is clear he refuses to suffer for the enterprise. As one ex-Applet (what does one call them?) stated...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 5, 2007 | Future Tech |
Disk vendors are the heroes of storage Disk vendors don’t get much respect from Wall Street, but they do the heavy lifting that makes affordable massive storage possible. And it looks like the hits will just keep on coming. Hitachi Global Storage Technology is...
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