by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 | Future Tech, SAN, FC |
As an aside StorageMojo.com noted yesterday (see “Bring Me The Head Of WinFS”) that with the demise of WinFS in Vista, Apple has an even greater opportunity to stick it to Redmond by incorporating the leading edge open source ZFS file system cum storage...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 26, 2006 | Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
With all the exciting news in file systems cum storage managers, one might wonder what the world’s largest and most profitable software company is doing. They See The Coming Trainwreck They are aware of the data/storage trends. As Microsoft SVP of Server Apps...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 22, 2006 | Future Tech, SOHO/SMB
When I first got into the computer biz, a 500MB disk was the size of a washing machine and cost $50,000. The “hot box” of the day was a one MIP machine with a system bus about as fast as today’s Gigabit Ethernet. And the unimaginably huge user...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 18, 2006 | Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
How Hard? After a US spy plane was forced to land in China and the plane’s disks gave up military secrets, researchers worked to figure out how to quickly and securely erase the disk. Even when the people snooping it had unlimited time and money. Crushing,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 16, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
What about the data center investments of Yahoo, Google and Microsoft? Microsoft has commited to spend over $2.5B on capital and acquisitions – much of it to compete with Google. Yahoo will also likely spend about $1B just on computers and equipment. Google will...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
White Box Arrays (WBA) today remind me of the early days of personal computing before Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore built the first appliance computers. People bought bare PC boards and a bag of components to build their own computers. WBA’s aren’t...
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