Techno Musings

An article over at Infoworld brings up again something that I’ve talked about in reference to BlueArc: thinking in parallel.  The old adage about chewing, gum, walking, holding a conversation and trying to do a math problem roughly gets to why this is a challenging task.  (I’m going to get a bit esoteric here so [...]

A recent article about Mr. Tucci points to the creation of a cross archive/content management federated search system for compliance enforcement across the enterprise.  Here’s the excerpt from the article.

I know that it is not related directly to storage, but I found the Interactive map of the Linux Kernel and highly recommend that you take it for a spin.  I think that this is relevant because so many storage applications are based upon Linux these days — well and OpenSolaris/Solaris as well.  So if [...]

I think in past posts I’ve hinted at this before, but I do want to talk a bit about the USP-V/VM’s volume migrator engine coupled to Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager.  I have a special place in my heart for these two products as I was fortunate enough to participate at the genesis of them both. [...]

I just read the news about the Kindle application for the iPhone. While I have yet to try the application this got me to thinking a bit on my train ride home: will this do for books what the iTunes store and the iPod did for music? Since I’m in Japan I do [...]