Off to Seattle

That’s right: the second Seattle Conference on Scalability – sponsored by Google – is this Saturday [see a couple of posts back for more info]. I’m also attending the bonus meeting in Fremont Friday evening. I’m bringing the video...

Seattle Scalability Conference v.2

On Saturday June 14th Google will host the 2nd Seattle Conference on Scalability. I’m planning to be there. Interesting topics Given the dual-track format, I may not be able to see everything I’d like. Here’s what looks cool to me: CARMEN: a Scalable...

IBRIX CTO talks segmented file system

What’s in a name? I’ve started doing some work for IBRIX. Despite looking at their web site several times I’d never understood what, exactly, they did. Turns out they make a cluster file system. One good enough for Dell, EMC and HP to resell. As...

Where’s Maui?

Just sat through EMC CEO Joe Tucci’s keynote for EMC World 2008. Conspicuous by its absence: Maui; the software piece of the Hulk/Maui global data repository [see EMC’s Maui and everybody else]. Joe promised Hulk/Maui in 7 months last November. EMC showed...