by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 9, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Pre-Announcement Analysis Sun is building, some might say finally building, its first complete storage system, Project Honeycomb, which they previewed at a Sun event last week. Researching further I found that Sun and others have dribbled out much more information on...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 1, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Everybody Unregenerate storage geeks talk about creating globally coherent distributed block storage services, but YottaYotta has done something about it. The busy elves at YY’s Edmonton HQ have done it, and now they have EMC’s investment to prove it....
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 29, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
They’ve come out of nowhere and in a few short years built one of the world’s largest always on data centers supporting data and compute intensive applications such as search, mail, chat, mapping, blogging and much more. They roll out new applications...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 28, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Security & Public Policy |
EMC’s GM of the Grid & Utility Computing, Ian Baird, mentioned at EMC World in Boston this week that EMC had invested in distributed caching technology developed by YottaYotta, a Canadian startup, for their “Grid Storage” strategic direction....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The emergence of a 16GB USB flash drive for $1363 poses an interesting question: will Samsung’s pre-announced 32GB flash drive cost $2600? Clearly there is some kind of kink in the price curve when a 4GB flash drive costs $19/GB, 8GB costs $32/GB and 16GB...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 24, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Maybe I’m late to the party but I just noticed that Hitachi is touting RVS, Rotational Vibration Safeguard (pdf). Since all disks in disk drives rotate, all drives have had rotational vibration from day one. So what’s new? Is this the equivalent of...
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