Ken Olsen, 1926-2011
Ken Olsen, the founder and long-time CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), died Sunday. It is a sad day for hundreds of thousands of DEC alumni. DEC's beginnings As a grad student at MIT Ken worked on Project Whirlwind, the world's first interactive real-time...
Will algorithms leap Moore’s Wall?
The performance increase in individual CPUs is slowing to a crawl. All the easy wins - higher clock speeds, wider datapaths, more DRAM, larger registers and caches, 2-4 cores - have been exploited. Doctor, is there any hope? In the recent PCAST report on Federal...
Hyder: a flash-based scale-out database
Talked to a company last week whose cloud app handles several billion transactions per month on a cluster. Sounds like SSDs could help them but how? In a paper from the latest 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '11) researchers Philip A....
Calling all Fusion-io users
Jim Handy of Objective Analysis writes: I am conducting interviews of Fusion-io users and would like to speak to as many as I can. If you use a Fusion-io product or if you know someone who does please let me know. Thanks, Jim _______________________________ Jim Handy...
StorageMojo @Storage Visions & CES 2011
The cowboys at StorageMojo's Global HQ are saddling up for a ride out to Storage Visions 2011 and the International Consumer Electronics Show. Yippee-ki-yi-yay. The high volumes and intense competition of consumer electronics drive manufacturing costs down the...
Fed funding for our digital future
As the world's largest consumer of information technology, the US government has driven IT R&D for over a century. And they've done a pretty good job. What's next? In Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information...
Dear StorageMojo: make NFS go fast!
Most of us know what it is like when a relationship goes bad: the sinking feeling that this just isn't going to work. Can this configuration be saved? Dear StorageMojo: I joined a company last year that is running Oracle 10g on a NetApp NAS/SAN. Immediately I asked...
A local sandbox for cloud storage
Talked to a startup the other day that looks interesting - Zettar. It wasn't the name that caught my attention. Object storage is big in clouds. But objects aren't compatible with standard apps: Powerpoint expects files, not objects. Cloudstores like Amazon and Azure...
Moore’s Wall: the end of Moore’s Law
CPU performance and clock speed have leveled out over the last several years. What does this mean for the industry? Moore's law Strictly speaking, Moore's law says that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 to 24 months. And that's been true for the...
EMC and Isilon
EMC acquires Isilon for $2.25 billion in cash. The StorageMojo take In one acquisition EMC gets: A high-growth scale out storage company. A replacement for the aging and unloved Centera/Celerra lines. A worthy competitor to NetApp's NAS boxes. Scale out storage...
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