by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, SOHO/SMB, Video |
I sat down with Nimble Storage co-founder and VP of engineering Varun Mehta to discuss their architecture – and shoot some video. Varun has been part of several Valley success stories – NetApp, Sun, Data Domain – and has a first hand perspective on...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 16, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Video |
Cloud computing gets a bad rap because it can’t replace corporate data centers for mission critical apps. But new computing paradigms never do that: it is the new capabilities they enable that drive adoption. Case in point: transcoding. Why? Anyone who shoots...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Clusters, Video |
Harmonic is acquiring video production infrastructure and storage provider Omneon for $274 million. They’d raised about $100M since their founding. Omneon Video Networks is a specialized storage company that provides broadcast quality storage for digital media,...
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 | Thursday, February 5, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Video |
The current economic free fall makes one thing clear: the days of solid gold enterprise IT are numbered. Successful IT architects and managers must be expert in wringing the maximum business value from IT architecture and product choices. But how, exactly, do you do...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 2, 2009 | Disk, Video |
Funny and provocative video (thanks David!) from Sun demonstrating 2 things: 15k drives are vibration sensitive – in this case to a shout a couple of inches away. That Sun’s Fishworks analysis suite enables realtime analysis of storage behavior. Bad, bad,...
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