Garth Gibson, author of the seminal paper which presented the redundant array of inexpensive independent disks (RAID) to the world, has a nice quick interview over at eWeek. It’s worth a read, since Gibson’s long been on the forefront of storage tech. He talks about how parallel NFS (pNFS) is set to trickle down to […]
Computer History
Considering the history of computing, from the enterprise to the home.
Wherefore Art Thou, Solid State Disks?
Sure, hybrid drives are going nowhere fast in enterprise storage. But what about solid state disk technology? It’s been “almost there” for decades – anyone remember EMC’s solid-state Orion Atom (or was it Adam) array? Now a handful of storage players are talking about SSD’s again, including some respectable names like LSI and Xiotech and […]
Where is Linux in Storage?
Marc Farley’s challenge of listing all the devices on our home networks got me thinking —I’ve got an awful lot of Linux devices, but all of them are infrastructure rather than interactive PCs. Of the 10 devices currently attached my home network, four are Linux based (two TiVos, a Linksys router, and Linksys NAS), three […]
Storage History: The 3Server
Being a history buff stuck in the storage industry, I’ve long had an interest in how we got where we are. So much of the storage industry is rooted in legacy, and we can learn much by knowing why things turned out the way they did. I’d like to kick off a series of articles […]
Goodbye, old hardware
I’m moving. As always happens, moving is a great time to rid ones self of baggage and clutter. So I’m saying goodbye to some old friends: four PCs and two monitors. It wasn’t easy, though, and not because of sentiment. In this age of environmental regulations, how do you toss a PC?
