EMC: Money Can’t Buy Love; Can Buy Pig In Poke
EMC, the world's largest independent storage firm, paid a 45% premium for RSA Security, a firm with stagnant sales. Its stock promptly tanked, dropping 4%. Expect more tanking RSA products are primarily authentication (you are who you say you are) and access...
Google’s Secret Architecture
Talking to Bryan Cantrill, one of the ZFS engineers, in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I mentioned that it seemed that Google could really kick Ebay's tail and Bryan, selected by MIT's Review as one of the TR35 quickly responded that no one can "spray on" transaction...
EMC: Lights On, Nobody Home As ILM Fails
Byte & Switch found yet another EMC marketing victim customer for whom ILM isn't working, this time Intel. Guess what, end-users don't want to classify their data! Even if they do, it isn't easy moving it around! Intel is reduced to hoping Intel lawyers are going to...
ZFS On Leopard: How Cool Is That?
Very Cool. Why? Here are the highlights of some of the changes you'd see with ZFS on Leopard, the next version of the Mac OS. No More Disk Warrior Data corruption on PCs and Macs is a sad and stupid fact of life. Power failures, flaky RAM, poor grounding, (slowly)...
Apple Mojo In High-End Storage
As an aside StorageMojo.com noted yesterday (see "Bring Me The Head Of WinFS") that with the demise of WinFS in Vista, Apple has an even greater opportunity to stick it to Redmond by incorporating the leading edge open source ZFS file system cum storage manager into...
Bring Me The Head Of WinFS
With all the exciting news in file systems cum storage managers, one might wonder what the world's largest and most profitable software company is doing. They See The Coming Trainwreck They are aware of the data/storage trends. As Microsoft SVP of Server Apps Paul...
POHO, POHM: Storage, Access And Music
The Washington Post has a good article about how the internet has rekindled interest in all kinds of niche music. Music used to be pure performance: one or more musicians at a specific place and time. Each performance unique: POHO, Play Once, Hear Once. With the...
Online Storage I Could Use
Read A Long Article That Compares 17 Services The folks at PC World have an article comparing 17 different online backup services. If online backup is a concern check it out. There are some cool services out there. Or Check Out These Guys - Who AREN'T In PC World If...
Pimp My Standard: Vendor Theatre of the Absurd
More pointless posturing by storage vendors in the continuing telenovela of the Storage Management Initiative Spec. Like the Latin American telenovela the dramatic storyline of the manly vendor and the alluring customer is punctuated with noisy fights, low comedy and...
Memo to Intel: 2 GB Of RAM Isn’t Enough
When I first got into the computer biz, a 500MB disk was the size of a washing machine and cost $50,000. The "hot box" of the day was a one MIP machine with a system bus about as fast as today's Gigabit Ethernet. And the unimaginably huge user virtual address space of...
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