by Robin Harris | Monday, February 8, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
MapReduce and its open source version, Hadoop, are parallel data analysis tools. A few lines of code can drive massive data reductions across thousands of nodes. Cool. Powerful though it is, Hadoop isn’t a database. Classic structured data analysis of the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | Enterprise, Information Management |
While everyone else was watching the Apple iPad intro I was watching Oracle’s John Fowler talk about their systems and storage strategy. I like the iPad, but the O+S strategy could reshape the storage industry. More details will emerge and many decisions still...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 8, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In no particular order, cool stuff at Storage Visions 2010 and CES. Mobo-mounted SSD. Soligen has announced an SSD that mounts on motherboards. The drive mounts firmly, requires no special cooling and takes little board space. Tiny USB drive. Verbatim has announced a...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, December 6, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
Virtual machines (VMs) solve the problem of many tiny servers on a big server. VMs are a logical outgrowth of Moore’s Law: server CPUs got bigger, faster, than the apps required. And Windows Server didn’t handle multiple apps well. But the growth of 100...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Architecture, Information Management |
Ding, dong. PC file system progress took a giant step back this week with the news on MacOSforge that Apple’s ZFS project has been discontinued. ZFS Project Shutdown 2009-10-23 The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 14, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
High-end big iron storage arrays have long owned the transaction processing market. The big relational database systems need all the I/O and availability you can give them. But what if we didn’t need big relational databases? What then? RDBMS – RIP? On his...
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