by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 9, 2005 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Not as sexy as getting horizontal, but a lot more space effective. In case we were wondering if disk drives were going to continue their phenomenal capacity growth for the next few years, now we know. But I’m not really writing about that, which will be old news...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 4, 2005 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Sun is doing some reasonably smart pre-announcing of what they hope will be the Next Big Thing from their beleaguered storage group: Honeycomb. This system promises to: “search and retrieve files at a quick clip. The Honeycomb boxes will run specialized indexing...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, November 27, 2004 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
SolarPC has announced the SolarLite PC, a $100 (when you buy $10M worth!) PC based on the VIA chipset and DSLinux (Damn Small Linux) which includes a fairly complete set of tiny apps in just 50MB. It isn’t clear if it includes a display in that price —...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
The forces of flaky marketing have been pushing mightily on the concept of Information Lifecycle Management. With much heavy lifting the marketing mavens have gotten ILM fairly high on the Hype Cycle. I keep wondering when someone will wake up to the simple fact that...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 6, 2004 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM
The latest from the Bad Ideas Never Die department: a number of vendors are postulating a really cheap PC that is, get this, network-based. Back in the dark ages of coal-fired mainframes, these things used to be called terminals, and they weren’t that popular...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, September 11, 2004 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
The storage Big Bang began with the first electronic digital computers which used modifiable electronic storage, such as mercury delay tubes, CRT storage, magneto-restrictive delay lines or such. Unlike earlier storage — plugboards and punchcards and papertape...
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