Distributed systems design for everyone
Link and run Came across a great one-long-web-page intro to distributed systems design on Google Code. If you work on a distributed systems project, everyone on the product team ought to at least understand what's on this page. That means marketing, tech writers, ops,...
What is Mandriva whining about?
We've all heard the story before: little company mugged by Microsoft. So I was inclined to be sympathetic to Mandriva's complaint against Microsoft last week. Until I looked into it. Mandriva makes the sale They signed a contract to sell 17,000 notebooks to Nigeria,...
The bastards say, welcome.
The most famous computer ad that never ran was created for Data General. As told in Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine (still a great story of the inside of a major product development cycle) after IBM announced the Series/1, a 16-bit minicomputer designed to...
Dell wins EqualLogic – EMC loses
Dell's $1.4 billion, all-cash acquisition of EqualLogic is the beginning of a stampede by big storage vendors to pick up appliance storage vendors. Dell should know: they've been having support nightmares with the Clariion line for years. The stuff is just too complex...
The China syndrome
What is Cantonese for "sucks"? A piece in the UK web site The Register, says of some recent Mac drives: According to Retrodata, its customers have sent in a much higher number of failed Seagate 2.5in SATA drives made in China and loaded with firmware version 7.01 than...
Flash Performance on a Nokia N800
I came across this simple - too simple? - flash performance benchmark on an anonymous blog named DelayToleraNt. The benchmark is a Java program that creates random data (in chunks of kilobyte) and writes the data to a file. For comparison I ran the same program with...
Sun counter-punches NetApp
Yippie-ki-yi-yay As we say here in ranch country. Sun sent out a press release on the NetApp fracas today. I didn't have time to parse it, so here's the raw intelligence: Sun was legally obligated to respond in Texas to the initial suit brought on September 5, 2007 by...
StorageMojo NPI
New Product Introduction As part of my campaign to increase the world's consumption of disk capacity - see yesterday's post - I've developed a new capacity gobbling product. For lack of a better term I call it a video white paper. The impetus? No one reads anymore....
The best bluesman you’ve never heard of
Meet Danny Rhodes and the Messengers For a small town in the mountains of northern Arizona, 2 hours from Phoenix, we have a great local music scene. Ms. Mojo and I are out most weekend nights dancing to live music. Our favorite bluesman is Danny Rhodes and the...
Would you use OSS storage?
Amazon and Google have demonstrated commercially - as have a number of research projects such as Microsoft's Boxwood - it is possible to build highly available storage out of commodity servers. The odd thing is that, AFAIK, there is no commercially supported open...
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