Testing, testing, 1 2 3 . . .
George Ou weighs in Many good points have been made about the problems with the Tom's Hardware flash SSD tests. My former colleague George Ou, late of ZDnet, weighed in with an excellent summary of the TH testing problems: The tests are very flawed. If you read the...
StorageMojo at SNIA Symposium
If your company is a SNIA member and you're in the Bay Area the Storage Networking Industry Association Symposium might be the excuse you're looking for to cut work on a lovely summer day. I'll be delivering a keynote address on Wednesday morning, July 23rd, at the...
Notebook SSDs are dead
It's all over but the shouting The scoop: the gap between notebook SSD promise and performance has been growing steadily. Now a review in Tom's Hardware puts the final nail in the coffin. The title says it all: The SSD Power Consumption Hoax : Flash SSDs Don’t...
The Hitz report
The NetApp/Sun patent battle continues. I don't see how NetApp can win this, given the Supreme Court's Teleflex decision, which makes prior art a question that can be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. But the company is doggedly pursuing the battle, and Dave...
David Caminer: app design for 1st business computer
Sometime we forget how young the computer revolution is. The death 10 days ago of David Caminer, who led the application programming for the world's first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) is a reminder. LEO performed its first business calculation...
Optimism and manycore computing
The parallel computing/manycore initiatives may be missing the point. The challenge of manycore computing is burn up as many CPU cycles as possible doing things that we don't do today because the computational cost is too great. Making existing apps go faster is...
IT is a factory; the Web is a playground
Over on O'Reilly radar, Nat Torkington, does a neat riff on the enterprise SOA movement. He likens enterprise IT to a stern father: . . . with strict rules, transgressors to be punished;. . . while the Web is: . . . the nurturing parent (the API provider) who...
Short videos from Seattle Scalability Conference
I've put together a couple of ~3 minute video excerpts from the Seattle Scalability Conference last Saturday. I've edited them to be useful standalone intros. Maybe they'll entice you to learn more. Chapel: productive parallel programming at scale Bradford Chamberlain...
It’s official: ZFS in Mac OS 10.6 server
Can single-user OS X be far behind? Here's the official Apple announcement: For business-critical server deployments, Snow Leopard Server adds read and write support for the high-performance, 128-bit ZFS file system, which includes advanced features such as storage...
Cloud computing podcast
Gary Orenstein has published a podcast of a discussion we had a couple of weeks ago about cloud computing. Cloudy days on the hype cycle Cloud computing and storage is still climbing the hype cycle. Remember client-server computing? It was going to change the world....
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