by Robin Harris | Monday, July 17, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
It’s official: ILM (Information Lifecycle Management), the three year old storage industry marketing thrust, is in critical condition. The good people over at the StorageNetworking.org have politely raised the red flag on ILM in three reports (see Information...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 13, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Tim O’Reilly has a post Operations: The New Secret Sauce about a discussion with Microsoft’s VP of Operations for Windows Live and how the new massive scale internet centers of Microsoft, Google et.al. change everything: . . . once we move to software as a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Sun may be getting their game on if the X4500 is any evidence. Packing 24 TB of storage and 2 dual-core 64bit Opterons into a 4U box, it is the first system anywhere to leverage the very cool ZFS. ZFS: Google File System For The Rest Of Us Google’s GFS...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 | Future Tech |
See the Update below. StorageMojo.com has been both Slashdotted and Digg’d. Those events prompted me to think about non-Google methods for finding the interesting and the meaningful in the massive slush pile of the web. Information Tells Us What We Want To Know...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 7, 2006 | Future Tech, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
I love what cheap massive storage will do for business, culture and research. Yet every so often I have second thoughts about how storage and other technologies might be misused – with the very best of intentions. This isn’t a Left or Right issue: folks...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 6, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech |
Want to see the real time evolution of online storage into a packaged application? Check out a couple of new online photo sites. The latest twist: enabling users to build picture-based timelines (OurStory) or digital picture collages (Tabblo). Will either hit it big?...
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