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Thinking About Storage In a New Way, From Cloud to Flash, with Dropbox and Fusion-io

July 23, 2013 By Stephen 1 Comment

I've been a storage revolutionary for quite a while, looking for new ways of data storage rather than technologies that perpetuate the same old approaches. That's why I'm excited about the implications of two very different API access methods announced by Dropbox at DBX and by Fusion-io today at OSCON. Dropbox App Storage On the consumer side, there's Dropbox, who … [Read more...] about Thinking About Storage In a New Way, From Cloud to Flash, with Dropbox and Fusion-io

Is SolidFire out in Left Field, or Are They Playing a Whole New Ballgame?

March 15, 2012 By Stephen 3 Comments

When I say “cloud storage”, you probably think of Amazon S3: Big, slow, cheap, and distributed. That's probably why the people I talk to about SolidFire usually start shaking their heads and denouncing the company. After all, who would be crazy enough to create an all flash storage array for cloud storage applications? But maybe it's not so crazy; maybe SolidFire is simply … [Read more...] about Is SolidFire out in Left Field, or Are They Playing a Whole New Ballgame?

Setting Up a Multi-Server Web Hosting Environment

June 26, 2009 By Stephen 7 Comments

The last few weeks have been tough on my web servers. The release of iPhone OS 3.0 tripled my site traffic overnight as folks investigate the new Exchange integration features, and traffic to IT commentary site, Gestalt IT, which I also host, has been growing rapidly. Plus, Google just refreshed PageRank again, sending even more visitors my way. I had switched from Dreamhost … [Read more...] about Setting Up a Multi-Server Web Hosting Environment

Apologies For The 404s!

February 7, 2009 By Stephen Leave a Comment

I've been using Dreamhost as my hosting provider since 2000, mostly happily. But last year I began receiving enough traffic that I could no longer rely on shared hosting. Last Fall, I switched all of my domains to a virtual private server at Dreamhost - an easy upgrade that doubled my hosting bill but promised all the performance I would need. Sadly, this was not the … [Read more...] about Apologies For The 404s!

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