Clouds over Berkeley: the RADLab reviews cloud computing pt. 2
In our last episode we reviewed the paper's supply and demand drivers. Now we look the investigator's top 10 obstacles and opportunities for cloud computing. Adoption, growth and business obstacles The paper identifies 10 obstacles and their associated opportunities....
Clouds over Berkeley: the RADLab reviews cloud computing pt. 1
Cloud computing: it's here; it's real; and it's cheap UC Berkeley's Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory has published a paper entitled Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (pdf). It is a spirited and thoughtful response to "bah, humbug"...
Bayesian analysis of IT infrastructure
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...
Quantum holographic storage
Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated quantum holographic storage, shattering long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter. Moving into the sub-atomic realm, they permanently stored 35 bits in the quantum space surrounding a single...
StorageMojo @ FAST ’09
One of the best conferences for students of advanced storage concepts is the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies. This year it is in San Francisco on February 24–27 and the StorageMojo team will be there. The final frontier As the transition to...
Dear Uncle StorageMojo: CSI edition
Continuing an occasional feature This just came over the transom. Vendors, take your best shot at configuring a good solution. Non-vendors are welcome too. I'll email him a customized StorageMojo take after the bulk of the comments come in. Welcome to the real world,...
Cloud storage symposium impressions
Some quick impressions from the SNIA cloud storage symposium. Not everyone believes in economies of scale At least one presenter questioned whether there are economies of scale that justify the higher latency and lower bandwidth of cloud storage. I recently wondered...
SNIA cloud storage summit
Cloud storage seems to have legs, so after the usual hesitation about leaving home (see picture above) I decided to attend the SNIA cloud storage summit in sunny San Jose this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Hmm-m: cloud, summit. . . . images of John Krakauer's Into...
TransFlash
Truism: flash is not the same as disk. So why don't we take advantage of that - rather than hiding it? Partly is it is the human SOP: first build the old thing out of the new stuff. Not to mention the commercial allure of hundreds of millions of SATA interfaces in the...
Watkins walks – can Seagate fly?
He was pushed Seagate's Bill Watkins, CEO since 2004, apparently lost the confidence of the Seagate board and was replaced by former CEO and current Chairman Stephen Luczo. Why? Not Watkins' sometimes bizarre public statements: that would've gotten him the boot years...
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