Open source in lean IT
No, not another post about green IT Mention green to most CFO's and they'll assume you're talking about the color of money. Which is exactly the language of a Wall Street Journal article (subscription required I fear) on Sir Richard Branson's new Virgin America...
Benchmarking energy efficiency
You say you want a revolution? Energy efficient data centers are in the news again, with the EPA reporting that data centers use 1.5% of US electricity - almost 6 million home's worth - and doubling in five years. The numbers don't include the "custom server" power...
What rules for corporate blogging?
Barry, an EMC employee, graciously responded to yesterday's post on free speech on both his blog and in a comment. Tony Pearson, an IBM employee, also pointed to IBM's wiki-generated - walk the talk! - IBM blogging policy and guidelines. However, a fundamental...
Free speech for corporate bloggers
Pardon me while I comment on blogging I don't find most commentary on blogging to be worth spit, especially the "end of civilization as we know it" nonsense of Andrew Keen. Blogging is a new media with low barriers to entry. It satisfies a basic human desire to have...
Our lackluster commodity file systems
I've been ranting about data loss on Storage Bits. Data loss makes me irate because I see regular folks who know nothing about computers struggling with the fallout and it is so unnecessary. The stimulus was a fine PhD thesis IRON File Systems (pdf) by Vijayan...
Brocade’s ex-CEO nailed for fraud
Found guilty on all 10 counts Greg Reyes, former CEO of Brocade, was convicted today of all 10 counts he was charged with of criminal securities fraud for backdating stock options and lying about it in a San Francisco courtroom. He faces 20 years in prison. Mr. Reyes...
F5 acquires Acopia
Seattle-based F5 networks announced today their plan to acquire Massachusetts-based Acopia Networks. I think it is an interesting tie-up. Is storage just another network service? A trick question. Of course storage is, and of course, is isn't. Networks specialize in...
Mission-critical OSS: an oxymoron?
Think high-end enterprise requirements Mission critical reliability High performance & scalability "One throat to choke" support Would you expect to find free open-source software crowding out closed proprietary solutions? It is at JPMorgan and other financial...
Powering a warehouse-sized computer – part 2
Cumulative distribution functions The paper describes three large-scale Google workloads: Websearch: high request throughput and large data processing requirements for each request - IIRC 70-100 MB of data searched per request - with variable demand by time of day....
So what does Google use when they aren’t Googling?
A reader wrote me a note that asks a question that I think is on the minds of many data center folks. He said it well himself, so I'll quote liberally, starting with the compliment. I really enjoy reading your blogs! One thing I've notices in your blog, other blogs,...
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