by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 10, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
From Stealth To Spin Newly announced Skyrider has come out of stealth mode with a interesting spin on the current Internet Data Center (IDC) architectures used by Amazon, Google and Yahoo: the p2p IDC. A Word About P2P Peer-To-Peer (p2p) network architectures are...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 9, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
So I’m trying to make some lemonade to go with my crow steak after mistakenly tying Time Machine to Sun’s very cool ZFS. Given that Apple has incorporated Sun’s DTrace into the Darwin kernal, I still have hope they will do the same with ZFS. In my...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 8, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Update: Sadly, it appears I’m wrong. See the update at the bottom of this post and the comments. It was fun while it lasted. And my congrats to the Apple Time Machine UI team still stand. Brilliant. The original post follows. Lest The Suspense Kill You: The...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 8, 2006 | Future Tech |
Pardon me while I get my geek on. While this doesn’t relate directly to storage, it does relate to everyone who develops or administers Mac OS X, one of my favorite operating systems (along with Tops-20). And it is another powerful feature that Microsoft’s...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 4, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Reader Robert Pearson made an interesting comment that I wanted to respond to at greater length. Responding to the recent Architecting the Internet Data Center series, he wrote about the problem of the Enterprise Data Center (EDC): But finally, I have to ask whether...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 3, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Looking at the “Rules of Thumb of Data Engineering” we find that Internet Data Centers have tended to hew closer to the Rules than Enterprise Data Centers. What are the Rules? What are the implications for EDCs? Can IT matter? The exponential changes in...
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