by Robin Harris | Monday, August 31, 2009 | Future Tech, Information Management, Marketing |
With the release of Snow Leopard it is now official: no ZFS – anywhere – in Mac OS 10.6. Given that Apple went to the trouble of announcing it last year as part of Snow Leopard Server this is quite a reversal. The question is why? Many theories I wrote...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Bigtable to the rescue (sort of) In Part 1, Sean Quinlan, a Google engineer, related how the original GFS single master architecture became a bottleneck. But since Google controls its entire software stack from OS to apps, it could compensate by tweaking the apps and...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
Jeff Darcy has a good post on key data stores, like Amazon’s Dynamo, and how they differ from filesystems and databases. He relates his transition from a filesystem purist to a more flexible perspective. The thing that really changed my mind about this was an...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | Information Management |
Am @ Interop today – a nice, relaxing 250 mile drive from home – so this isn’t a standard StorageMojo post. Think of it as an expanded tweet. Part of what Oracle gets with Sun is ZFS. And part of what Chris Mason of Oracle is working on is Btrfs...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | Future Tech, Information Management |
The Wall Street Journal (subscription probably required) reports that e-books appear to be taking off: Barnes & Noble Inc. has launched a free electronic-reader application for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry as general book sales flag and the e-book...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 22, 2009 | Information Management |
Ms. Mojo persuaded me – she can be very persuasive – that tweeting could be cool. I’m skeptical, but game. Not about me For those of you coming in even later, Twitter is the trendy new revenue-free social web phenom. Users communicate through...
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