My 2009 IT Industry Predictions
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 24. Dec, 2009 | View Comments
Predictions are perilous: Get it right and you look like a mere trend-watcher; get it wrong and you look like a fool. So I’m doing something different this year: I’m going to make predictions for 2009 now that it’s over, and reflect on just how smart I am (not) to have made them.
Deduplication Coming to Primary Storage
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 16. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
This is a follow-up to my story, De-Duplication Goes Mainstream
Although deduplication of storage is nothing new, with Data Domain and other making hay with the technique for years, it has never been ready for prime time – reduction of active primary storage applications like email and databases. Instead, deduplication has been relegated to second- or [...]
greenBytes Embraces and Extends ZFS
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 15. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve long hollered that ZFS is a real storage revolution in the making, but recognized that it still had a way to go before replacing UFS, HFS+, and most volume managers. Well, a little Rhode Island company called greenBytes comes out of stealth today to announce that they’re doing just that – taking the solid [...]
