by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 | Future Tech |
My original idea was simply to go throught the 66 presenting companies and look at the interesting ones. Problem: there are too many interesting companies! Which is a nice problem to have. So I’m going to skim a little lighter over the field and try to focus on...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 11, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
I’ll be attending Datacenter Ventures in San Jose next week, and I thought I’d take some time and go through the 66 presenting companies and see who looks interesting. Naturally, this is StorageMojo.com, so I’m biased. At some level they are all...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 8, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Google’s Bigtable is essentially a massive, distributed 3-D spreadsheet. It doesn’t do SQL, there is limited support for atomic transactions, nor does it support the full relational database model. In short, in these and other areas, the Google team made...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 7, 2006 | Future Tech |
Google rolls out new applications to millions of users with surprising frequency, which is pretty amazing all by itself. Yet when you look at the variety of the applications, ranging from data-sucking behemoths like webcrawling to intimate apps like Personalized...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 6, 2006 | Future Tech |
The stupid fight between Blu-ray and HD-DVD shows no sign of abating, but there may finally be a player with enough clout to decide the issue after the movie studios, Sony, Apple, Microsoft and HP couldn’t break the log jam. The tie-breaker: pornography. And...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 25, 2006 | Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Update: In the comments Mark claims that the ZFS reference in Apple’s Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, proves that Apple is, in fact, working on porting ZFS: All filesystems on MacOS X are implemented using what’s called VFS plugins, these interact with...
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