by Robin Harris | Friday, December 8, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The redoubtable Kevin Closson has a post entitled “Introducing the “Unstructured Data Administratorâ€. In it he refers to a study put out by the Independent Oracle Users Group called “Managing the Storage Equation: The Converging Roles of Data and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 7, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
So I sent a note off to the nice folks at HP who wrote this paper, alerting them to their elevation to storage rock stars, and one of them wrote me back to alert me to a newer version of the paper. The newer version is less sprightly yet has a lot more information, so...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
One of the holy books of the Mammon-worshipping Church of the MBA is Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. One of the things I like about Smith is his intellectual ju-jitsu on the issue of the essential amorality of markets. Sure, Smith says, the people buying and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 5, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
FAB: the software This is the good part. Each brick runs three pieces of software: The Coordinator that receives client requests and manages reads and writes The Block-manager that does the actual reading and writing of – you guessed it! – disk blocks And...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Is it really possible to build enterprise-class storage using cheap commodity products? Some folks at HP certainly think so. They call their design FAB, short for a Federated Array of Bricks. Ignatz, meet Krazy Kat. Of course, HP is only the world’s largest data...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 28, 2006 | Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
In last week’s episode of Privacy Carve Out, Vaporstream promised to allow us to create, send and receive untrackable, unforwardable and disappearing email. This week the mavens at Xerox PARC announce they’ve developed a prototype technology that ensures...
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