100x laser-based disks: less than meets the eye
The summer slow news silly season is upon us An article in ScienceNow Daily News reports that Dutch researchers have a lab demonstration of a disk written with polarized laser light. This article was picked up by /. so it will get a lot of undeserved play. The article...
Seattle Scalability Conference, Pt II
Building REALLY big clusters You may be surprised to learn that Google DOESN'T build the world's largest clusters. That honor goes to the government agencies who are Cluster File Systems Inc. customers. CFSI produces the Lustre File System, today's high-end cluster...
Seattle Conference on Scalability, Pt. I
I survived Seattle's "summer" weather And the Google-sponsored Seattle Conference on Scalability. It was like spending 10 hours trying to drink from a fire hose. Great stuff. I took notes on four of the sessions I attended. I would have taken more, but since Apple...
Consumerization of IT: iPhone skirmishing begins
Data center folks are conservative I was on a panel a couple of months ago with analysts from big firms touting deep data center research. My point then, and now, was simply "Data center management can tell you what they plan, but they can't forecast change. They are...
Wiki-wiki w00t!
I moderate all comments on StorageMojo and it is one of my favorite jobs. Moderation has turned into an unlooked-for pleasure, as I get to see the many insightful comments before everyone else. This morning's came from David Vellante, who was at IDC for years. (Is IDC...
Flash chance
Flash is weirder than you know - so keep reading - and you'll know I think I already mentioned that the flash guys refer to "programming" flash when a storage guy like moi would say "write." But they have a point. Flash is really an EEPROM. More than a write-once...
ZFS on Mac: Now it’s official!
But we knew it all along Infoworld published a follow-up clarifying Apple's inclusion of ZFS in Mac OS X 10.5.0. And doing quite a bit of tap dancing. Apple now says that the ZFS file system will be available in the forthcoming Mac operating system, sort of. Seeking...
Google Seattle scalability conference
I'm pumped! Next week I'm flying to Seattle to attend a one day conference on scalability hosted by Google's Kirkland office. It is a great set of presentations with leading edge practitioners. Here's the agenda, presenters and edited descriptions of the topics:...
Apple’s touchless file system conversion patent
Make HFS to ZFS conversions fast and painless Let's say you wanted to convert millions of computers to a new file system. How would you do it? Back up, reformat the disk, and then reinstall everything? Or run a handy file system converter that changes the file system...
ZFS On Mac: Now All-But-Official Pt. II
All we need now is teh Steve to say it . . . Thanks to alert reader Petieg, I've learned that according to Mac Rumors Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said today that In fact, this week you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has...
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