by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Part I discussed Amazon’s internal operations from the perspective provided by the paper Advanced Tools for Operators at Amazon.com (pdf). Amazon runs one of the world’s largest OLTP systems and they are beset by many of the same legacy system problems...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 22, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
I finally finished this post so I’ve superseded the first version with this one and given it a new title. I hope this doesn’t violate the mores of blogdom. In flipping through my notes I accidentally ignored Appistry so I’ve added them to the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 | Future Tech |
When I helped YottaYotta win the “Investor’s Choice” award at Technologic Partner’s Datacenter Ventures in 2001, the conference was packed with VC’s eager to invest in the Next Big Thing. Now, after the dot bust, things are quieter and a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
The Church of Small Business Dave Hickey, one of my favorite culture critics, describes Mission Impossible as the Church of Small Business: the team shows up on time, they know their jobs, they don’t complain, and their equipment, their equipment, my friend...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 15, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Apple’s “sneak preview” of iTV raised questions for most folks: why announce now? Will people download video like they do audio? Will the other studios join up? For me though, iTV answered a big question: is Apple porting ZFS to Mac OS X? So...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Good dialog between Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Encyclopedia Britannica’s Dale Hoiberg in today’s Wall Street Journal (free version, I think). They dance around the subject of massive storage and cheap internet publishing – both of which enable...
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