by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | Disk, Information Management |
I was surprised at how many ZDnet readers reacted with disbelief to my recent Storage Bits series on data corruption (see How data gets lost, 50 ways to lose your data and How Microsoft puts your data at risk), claiming it had never happened to them. Then I thought...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 9, 2007 | Enterprise, Information Management |
I’ve been ranting about data loss on Storage Bits. Data loss makes me irate because I see regular folks who know nothing about computers struggling with the fallout and it is so unnecessary. The stimulus was a fine PhD thesis IRON File Systems (pdf) by Vijayan...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
An alert reader sent this in as a comment this morning. Thank you! As of Jul 10, 1:00am PDT, 10 of the talks have been published (including the Lustre and Verisign ones). Searching for “seattle conference on scalability” on google video seems to return...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 5, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
The wily Googlers fooled me I thought the videos were supposed to be on YouTube – the video service they bought for $1.6 billion a few months ago. But NO! They’re on Google Video. I just figured that out. The good news: better quality on Google Video. The...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
I survived Seattle’s “summer” weather And the Google-sponsored Seattle Conference on Scalability. It was like spending 10 hours trying to drink from a fire hose. Great stuff. I took notes on four of the sessions I attended. I would have taken more,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 18, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management |
I moderate all comments on StorageMojo and it is one of my favorite jobs. Moderation has turned into an unlooked-for pleasure, as I get to see the many insightful comments before everyone else. This morning’s came from David Vellante, who was at IDC for years....
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