RAD Infrastructure: the Case of the Missing X4500
I've had comments, both written and verbal, about how hard it is to buy an X4500. As I noted in Computerworld that isn't the surprise. I like the X4500 because it breaks the current model of available and high performance storage based on the 18-year old idea of a...
Google Software Development
Google has developed a lot of cool software. Ever wonder how? I'm not a student of software development methodologies, so much of Steve Yegge's Good Agile, Bad Agile is of little interest, especially the rants about Agile Programming. Yet his description of "Good...
ZFS: High Availability Mojo Coming Soonish
Over on Robert Milkowski's blog is this pre-announcement: I see that many people are asking about ZFS + Sun Cluster solution. Soon Sun Cluster 3.2 should be released which does support ZFS (among many other new features). Now Solaris 10 is free, Sun Cluster is free....
Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon’s Datacenter, Pt II
Part I discussed Amazon's internal operations from the perspective provided by the paper Advanced Tools for Operators at Amazon.com (pdf). Amazon runs one of the world's largest OLTP systems and they are beset by many of the same legacy system problems that enterprise...
Coolest New Companies At Datacenter Ventures
I finally finished this post so I've superseded the first version with this one and given it a new title. I hope this doesn't violate the mores of blogdom. In flipping through my notes I accidentally ignored Appistry so I've added them to the honorable mention list in...
HP Scandal Deepens Thanks To Massive Storage
The Washington Post reported this morning that chief executive Mark V. Hurd approved an elaborate "sting" operation on a reporter in February in an attempt to plug leaks to the media, according to an e-mail message sent by HP Chairman Patricia C. Dunn. Ah, the power...
Day 1 @ Datacenter Ventures
When I helped YottaYotta win the "Investor's Choice" award at Technologic Partner's Datacenter Ventures in 2001, the conference was packed with VC's eager to invest in the Next Big Thing. Now, after the dot bust, things are quieter and a heck of a lot saner. Today,...
Daddy, tell me again how little EMC beat giant IBM . . .
Note, I'm rushing out the door as one must when the nearest major airport is two and half hours away, and while I wanted to report on Amazon, Chubby and Joyent, I decided that one of my old posts about the rise of EMC - and that worthy institution, the Computer...
Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon’s Datacenter, Pt I
The Church of Small Business Dave Hickey, one of my favorite culture critics, describes Mission Impossible as the Church of Small Business: the team shows up on time, they know their jobs, they don't complain, and their equipment, their equipment, my friend always...
Means, Motive & Opportunity: Apple Kills the Media Center PC
Apple's "sneak preview" of iTV raised questions for most folks: why announce now? Will people download video like they do audio? Will the other studios join up? For me though, iTV answered a big question: is Apple porting ZFS to Mac OS X? So I'm calling it: yes, Apple...
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