Sat 28 Oct 2006
There’s the old adage …
“If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.”
I’ve counseled others with that same advice. But now, I find myself frequently fighting that very conception – most recently, this past week at Oracle Open World.
Wed 25 Oct 2006
Not sure how many of you saw it, but Larry Ellison threw down the gauntlet today (at least in this bloggers opinion) at Oracle Open World, announcing that Oracle would maintain and support (it’s own?) RedHat-based Linux distribution, Unbreakable Linux.
Reminds me of an old cartoon …
Wed 25 Oct 2006
I knew it couldn’t possibly end there …
I recently sent Jon Toigo (DrunkenData) a formal response to questions he and some of his readers had about Data ONTAP GX, NetApp’s scale-out storage architecture.
In a followon comment, one of Jon Toigo’s readers, who failed to indicate his affiliation, but whose name links to LeftHand Networks :-), wrote:
“It’s nice to see NetApp being open about its GX architecture. This being said, the architectural deficiencies were clearly spun in a positive light with marketing hype.”
So, in the interest of educating that reader (and perhaps some other readers) about scale-out storage and the scale-out computing revolution, I thought I’d take the opportunity here to share some of my experience and personal observations. (more…)
Thu 19 Oct 2006
New York, New York. It’s a helluva town.
Leonard Bernstein (or more accurately, Betty Comden and Adolph Green) had it right.
Sun 1 Oct 2006
Distributed Resource Management (DRM) solutions had their origin as simple batch schedulers capable of dispatching jobs to “free†cpu resources for technical computing applications. Over the years, these systems have evolved to provide a wide range of job management services that include sophisticated rule-based dispatching mechanisms, environment replication, preemption, checkpoint/restart, and reporting. Now, as some of these technical computing approaches find their way into the core of the enterprise, DRM is establishing itself as a key technology to enable Enterprise Grid computing models.
Thu 28 Sep 2006
It was only 25 years or so ago that Dinosaurs ruled the earth.
No, really. Computing Dinosaurs, that is.
Fri 22 Sep 2006
I had the pleasure of visiting Stockholm, Sweden last week in conjunction with my work, presenting at NetApp’s first Tech Ontap Live event.
What an incredibly beautiful city. Of course it helped that the weather was simply spectacular during my visit, 70 F.
I took some photos in a morning walk around the city.
Thanks of course to my NetApp hosts - you know who you are 
Fri 22 Sep 2006
Every week, a new announcement in the internet and digital media space …
So, is this deja vu all over again? Are we experiencing the frantic upside of a second internet bubble? Will it burst too?
Fri 12 May 2006
So, is there such a thing as a “Storage Grid”? And, if so, what is it? (more…)
Fri 12 May 2006
Grid Computing is a term that has arisen in the last few years to describe a number of computer architecture approaches based on some simple but powerful principles. (more…)