StorageMojo Twitter beta
Ms. Mojo persuaded me - she can be very persuasive - that tweeting could be cool. I'm skeptical, but game. Not about me For those of you coming in even later, Twitter is the trendy new revenue-free social web phenom. Users communicate through messages of no more than...
Cisco’s bong-sized cloud: telcos only?
On my ZDnet blog I had some fun with the Cisco announcement. In Cisco's bong-sized cloud I opined that the 32 server limit of VMware's VMFS means that The platform they’re promoting is tiny by cloud infrastructure standards. Perfect for a dorm room - but not...
Cisco’s unified computing system
The professional journalists will hash out the details on the Cisco's long-awaited announcement today. Some striking aspects: Memory - as in DRAM - a key point. Chambers and Intel remarked on this several times. The next gen Xeon's will address *lots more* DRAM -...
StorageMojo site renovation starting today
The forecast calls for pain - and intermittant outages Update 1: RSS feed is broken. Google's Feedburner service can't validate the code for Google's YouTube player. It is almost as if Google were a giant clueless company. Will figure something out. Suggestions...
DTrace enabled storage analytics
Visited Sun's undisclosed - not on the building directory - DTrace/Fishworks think tank a couple of months ago. Adam Leventhal, one of the DTrace developers, graciously showed me around the lab and demo'd Fishworks. For latecomers, Adam once defined DTrace as . . . a...
TMS announces 450 GB PCI-e SSD
Fusion-io had the PCI-e flash card market all to themselves for the longest time - but no more. Texas Memory Systems, a stalwart in the DRAM-based SSD market, has announced a new product, the RAMSan-20, a 450 GB SSD on a full height, full length PCI-e card. With 450...
Vint Cerf on bit rot in Windows 3000 – lol
Butler Lampson, Irwin Jacobs and Vint Cerf walked into a bar . . . . Actually, they spoke at a symposium held at Google's HQ sponsored by the American Academy for Arts and SciencesThe Public Good: The Impact of Information Technology on Society. (See the Stanford News...
Is EMC gaming the government?
According to PC World, the US Justice Department joined a suit brought against EMC, Booz Allen Hamilton, Acxiom, and Titan Corporation by 2 individuals in Little Rock. The original suit was filed 2 years ago - the new news is Justice's involvement. Justice says EMC ....
Belts, suspenders and scale
In a comment to the previous post, Pete Steege asked for some expansion on Alyssa's comments about belt & suspenders vs catastrophe avoidance. He thought the concept interesting and I agree: it's central to the scalability of storage. Alyssa isn't here to provide that...
The Amazon keynote at FAST ’09
Here are my notes from Alyssa Henry's Keynote on Amazon Web Services. Alyssa is the GM of Amazon's S3. Not much editing and no slides - yet - to link. Update: slides are here. Alert readers Tim and Justin found the link. Thanks, guys. Update 2: I've added a couple of...
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