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PMR Type 2

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:48:03 +0000

I hadn’t heard of this before a few days ago, when I was fact checking some of the info on Fujifilm’s video interview around its breakthrough with IBM in tape capacity. I had thought that the IBM-Fujifilm tape capacity demonstration showed the application of PMR head technology to a new tape coating that used BaFe particles to achieve the great density improvement.

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Getting Ready to Re-Launch IT Sense.org

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:26:58 +0000

I have been heads down building out a couple of websites. In addition to adding a lot of new content to C4Project.org (fresh interviews with Fujifilm, CA, and Xiotech), I am re-doing IT-Sense.org and will shortly tackle my main homepage and the Data Management Institute site. The objective is to freshen content and update code that has proven hacker-porous. Stand

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On the Air at 2PM EST

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:58:25 +0000

Tech Target is taking a video they shot of my last DR Planning seminar and is streaming it on the Internet right now. Here are the details I received after pinging the site.

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The Netapp vSphere 4.1 decoder ring

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:31:34 +0000

There was a lot written last week surrounding VMware's release of vSphere 4.1 . Netapp appeared to have a lot to say, but it was confusing to figure out what they were really talking about. I think I've got it now. It's unusual for a company to be invited as a centerpiece of high-visibility festivities and then mysteriously decide not to follow through

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Oh if ONLY there was a way to

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:15:12 +0000

The lament of many cloud compute providers as we engage with them… “I wish someone would offer a storage subsystem:” Was transactional (which VMware needs today to host VMDK storage) – but scaled, so I could manage at scale with less: scaled out linearly to large clusters (lets say 16 nodes – for a total of 128 intel cores for dealing with the IO load), using commodity x86 servers, but commodity components built for a service provider. where any resource in that cluster – brains, ports, caches could all service any IO – meaning it’s one big pool. A datastore literally is everywhere, but also dependent on no one element. that could scale up to huge capacity (let’s say petabytes) without increasing my FTE cost because it’s designed for management at scale (hey, just like Cisco UCS!) where everything could be wide-striped across the entire backend of the array – so it acts as one big aggregate pool of ports, IO, brains, IOps and GBs

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Thought For Friday

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:07:42 +0000

Toxoplasmosis leads to bad behavior. In fact, it makes us behave in a manner that is contrary to our own self preservation instinct. According to the research I have been doing after reading about it in The Economist a few weeks ago, I am wondering if it is central to the continued success of vendors

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Fast, faster and fastest

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:29:32 +0000

I was hanging out in San Francisco airport yesterday on a flight delay and went into one of the magazine stores to check out the latest monthlies. A bunch of them had the same full page ad from Oracle comparing a Sun server hosted Oracle DB with apps to an anonymous IBM “server” hosted Oracle DB with apps

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Xiotech a Laggard? Hmm.

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:09:04 +0000

Hopefully, some of the Xiotech folks have their ears on. In response to my previous post questioning the marketecture around Flash SSD, one reader (Pq65) said that my commentary underscored Xiotech’s limitations in the sense that they (1) are closely tied to Seagate, which doesn’t have a Flash story yet, and (2) were not jumping on

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Hitachi Geek Day Summary

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:06:58 +0000

Hitachi Geek Day has been and gone and I’m back home in the UK recovering from quick turnaround jetlag. Originally this event was known as HDS Bloggers Day and in actual fact was a day and a half long. Somewhere along the line the Geek monika was adopted and has been retained for the page summary on the Hitachi website. You can find a link here . Background So what was this event all about? Well, Hitachi are looking to raise their image using social media in a way already pioneered by Hewlett Packard and the attendees of the Gestalt IT events. This Geek Day (as I shall refer to it from now on) is the starting process on this journey and was in some ways a “beta” test of how to do future events (hence the 0.9 designation). Initially I was skeptical as to what content Hitachi would choose to present. They are well known for their Enterprise and Modular storage arrays and I’m more than familiar with these, having designed, implemented and managed many implementations in the past. In fact, I’ve previously assisted Hitachi in software feature development and have reverse engineered the HiCommand products to suit my own requirements.

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Flash SSD Woo in Full Voice

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:27:11 +0000

Everywhere I have been recently, the FlashSSD pitchmen have been noisier and noisier. Rob Peglar gave a great cautionary presentation on the subject at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, where I also spoke on the agenda of Todd Vojta’s great Paragon Technology Summit. Peglar noted several things that you should Google

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