by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 7, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Video |
The video folks have an interesting set of problems: large needs; major bandwidth; time-critical collaboration; lots of metadata; and more. Like budgets. I do some video production myself and empathize. They are today where most of us will be in 10 years: lots of...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of the LeftHand Networks shows how cluster storage is going mainstream – and how HP plans to be right in the middle of it. First PolyServe and now LeftHand. This is about commodity-based clusters Not iSCSI or GigE or 10 GigE...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
StorageMojo has long held the view that our storage workloads are changing: more file storage, less block storage; larger file sizes; and cooler data. While all the indicators said this was happening it’s good to find a study that confirmed this intuition. In...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
I wrote a short piece on ZDnet about Los Alamos National Labs new Cell Broadband Engine based supercomputer, Roadrunner. With ~14k v.3 Cell processors – an earlier version powers the PS3 game console – and another ~7k dual core Opterons, the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 3, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Security & Public Policy |
I had a con call with Chris Gladwin and Russ Kennedy of Cleversafe a couple of weeks ago. They’ve come to market with a product line that seeks to deliver: Massive scalability to meet growing digital content requirements Unprecedented Security and Privacy for...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
They haven’t reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO and put founder Sujal Patel in his place. And NetApp was trying to strangle baby Isilon (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are...
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