Enterprise Storage On a Shoestring, Pt. II
FAB: the software This is the good part. Each brick runs three pieces of software: The Coordinator that receives client requests and manages reads and writes The Block-manager that does the actual reading and writing of - you guessed it! - disk blocks And the...
Help Wanted: Storage Leadership Position Open
OK, executives at EMC, HP, IBM and Microsoft, do you really want to make a difference for your company, your fellow citizens and your country? Here's your chance. It won't be easy or quick, but if you are as good as you want us to believe, here's your chance to prove...
Today’s the Day: New FRCP Rules Now in Effect
The big day for the new e-discovery Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has arrived and it's Gold Rush time for e-discovery vendors. This morning's Associated Press report quoted a somewhat dubious source, James Wright " . . . director of electronic discovery at...
The Engineer’s Guide To Market Success
You work hard on a project for years and then marketing takes over. The underwhelming market response to the baby you sweated over is a bummer. Plus you may not get to do it again because "you" failed. How is an engineer to know if their marketing is going to succeed?...
Enterprise Storage On a Shoestring, Pt. I
Is it really possible to build enterprise-class storage using cheap commodity products? Some folks at HP certainly think so. They call their design FAB, short for a Federated Array of Bricks. Ignatz, meet Krazy Kat. Of course, HP is only the world's largest data...
Privacy Carve Out: Vapor-Paper
In last week's episode of Privacy Carve Out, Vaporstream promised to allow us to create, send and receive untrackable, unforwardable and disappearing email. This week the mavens at Xerox PARC announce they've developed a prototype technology that ensures that printed...
Infinite Density Storage @ the End of the Rainbow?
Techworld, relying on a article in Arab News, is reporting on an apparent breakthrough in printed data storage, Rainbow Technology, invented by a 24 year old student in India, Sainul Abideen. According to Arab News the Rainbow Versatile Disk . . . can store 90 to 450...
Kevin Closson is a Golden God!
Or at least a very knowledgeable Oracle guru with a deep interest in storage. He is also, cough, cough, a discriminating connoisseur of fine blogging. My ears are burning! Kevin, who works for the cluster software company, Polyserve, and is a longtime student of...
Ancient Storage Technology: the Human Mind
StorageMojo.com will be relaxing until Monday, November 27. In the meantime I point serious storageheads at a wonderful article in the November 20 issue of the New Yorker. As a warmup, memorize the Bible Titled Homer in India, the oral epics of Rajasthan (not...
Vaporstream Anti-storage
I had a colleague once whose emails seethed with such exquisite vituperation that new ones would get passed around the office so we could admire her wordcraft. She wasn't the happiest woman in the world and when she got behind the keyboard, look out! If you just can't...
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