by Robin Harris | Monday, August 13, 2012 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, Management |
“Call home” support has been standard in large arrays for 15 years. But Nimble Storage has kicked it up a notch with their advanced telemetry data from installed systems. It gives new meaning to the term “after-sale support.” Talk to me Their...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 21, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, Virtualization |
More virtual machines than physical machines were sold last year. What does that mean for storage? As noted 4 years ago in The virtual machine I/O blender Engineers have spent decades optimizing the OS, drivers, caching, controllers and disks for specific workloads....
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 25, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Management |
Commenters on the last post – Open source storage array – helped crystallize an idea that’s been lurking for years: comparing disk storage hardware on per-slot price. The Backblaze box, which costs about $50/slot, got a comment that said, in effect,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | Enterprise, Management, Security & Public Policy |
Wild. Cisco, with the aid of pliable government officials – do corporations know any other kind? – had a guy arrested and held in jail for 28 days in Vancouver, BC. He was arrested as he testified at a special hearing for the case! Cuff ’em, Danno...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 9, 2011 | Management, Marketing, Off-Topic |
Ken Olsen, the founder and long-time CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), died Sunday. It is a sad day for hundreds of thousands of DEC alumni. DEC’s beginnings As a grad student at MIT Ken worked on Project Whirlwind, the world’s first interactive...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, June 26, 2010 | Management, Security & Public Policy |
Greg Reyes, former CEO of Brocade, received a sentence of 18 months and a $15 million dollar fine for his conviction on 10 felony counts related to options backdating. Prosecutors had asked for 37 months and a $137 million dollar fine. Mr. Reyes was emotional at his...
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