by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
This morning Woven Systems announced their new 10 Gbit Ethernet switch. I named Woven “coolest hardware” at last years Datacenter Ventures conference. Harry Quackenboss, their CEO, promised they’d have the switch working in six months. Well, here it...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 16, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
There’s always a first time Sometimes it is great and sometimes, not so great. Advice to the SAN-lorn I’m asking StorageMojo.com readers to help this gentleman with his first SAN. I’ll kick off with my take after his letter. He didn’t ask to be...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 22, 2007 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
With the IPO completed, interest in Isilon among StorageMojo readers has been growing. So I thought I’d take a gander at their pricing and see how it stacks up. I’m fast tracking this project – doing the writing and analysis concurrently – so...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 15, 2007 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
The elephant’s graveyard is a metaphor for a place where old ideas go to die. For IT it is the flipside of the consumerization of IT. The seductive glass house As Sun’s troubles over the last few years have emphasized, enterprise IT is a Venus flytrap...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 11, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
Brocade announced it is buying Silverback Systems, makers of a low-cost IP accelerator chip Silverback has been getting some traction, as I learned when I had dinner with a couple of Silverback worthies at SNW. My pity turned to respect When I agreed to meet with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Are enterprise drives worth the power? Data center power consumption is getting a lot of press play lately. The issue: increased density means that a data center rack that used to need a 2kw may now need 6kw. And for every dollar spent to power equipment, another 40...
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