by Robin Harris | Friday, May 26, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
IMHO, both. In a storage industry where the hardware cost to protect data keeps rising, ZFS represents a software solution to the problem of wobbly disks and data corruption. Thus it is a threat to hardened disk array model of very expensive engineering on the outside...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 1, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Everybody Unregenerate storage geeks talk about creating globally coherent distributed block storage services, but YottaYotta has done something about it. The busy elves at YY’s Edmonton HQ have done it, and now they have EMC’s investment to prove it....
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 29, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
They’ve come out of nowhere and in a few short years built one of the world’s largest always on data centers supporting data and compute intensive applications such as search, mail, chat, mapping, blogging and much more. They roll out new applications...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 28, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Security & Public Policy |
EMC’s GM of the Grid & Utility Computing, Ian Baird, mentioned at EMC World in Boston this week that EMC had invested in distributed caching technology developed by YottaYotta, a Canadian startup, for their “Grid Storage” strategic direction....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Byte and Switch has posted an article on ILM (Information Lifecyle Management) where users note that it is very difficult to classify data and to move large quantities from more expensive to less expensive storage. These problems are consequences of the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
The forces of flaky marketing have been pushing mightily on the concept of Information Lifecycle Management. With much heavy lifting the marketing mavens have gotten ILM fairly high on the Hype Cycle. I keep wondering when someone will wake up to the simple fact that...
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