by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Wondering about HP’s counter for 3Par. Dell’s offer makes sense: they’re building expertise and a high-margin business. Dell and long time supplier EMC are growing apart as Dell realizes that that the relationship is doing little for them – and...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | Marketing, SAN, FC |
The Wall Street Journal gave Brocade free advertising with the article Network Specialist Brocade Up for Sale back in October. 5 months later Brocade is still for sale – and despite the HP/Cisco network wars it still isn’t clear why anyone might buy them....
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The world of data storage is changing faster than it has since the mid-90’s amid the rise of hardware arrays and storage networks. Looking back 2008 will be seen as a pivotal year. The big news, in rough ascending order: FCoE Though production-ready products are...
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 | Sunday, March 23, 2008 | Architecture, SAN, FC |
Back in ’96, when I was flogging FC networks for Sun under NDA, the most common objection was “I don’t want another layer to manage.” Despite that FC became successful in big enterprise IT shops. But the objection is still valid and a major...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 16, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech, Off-Topic, SAN, FC |
The P4P working group demo’d their work Friday at the Distributed Computing Industry Association show in New York. Not only did they show 2-3x faster downloads, but they also cut the average number of inter-metro hops – the expensive kind – from over...
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