Techno Musings

If you have not already heard the Hitachi Central Research Lab has their image search engine at the beta stage.  The name of the beta application is Gazopa and there are even iPhone and Facebook applications for the service.

Digressions from the previous post
If you had not guessed already I’m sticking with the Kermit the Frog theme here.  And just for grins here is the Rainbow Connection with Kermit and Debby Harry singing.

Storage Fusion - StoraFgUeSION - SfTuOsRiAoGnE
“HybridStorage” refers to the mix of flash and magnetic storage medias blended together to increase performance and efficiency. This particular effort is part of the HybridStorage Alliance to promote and educate the industry on the benefits and advantages of this approach. While I’m not personally involved in this organization’s [...]

Hi there folks! Okay so there are two logical arguments that come up again and again and I want to address them, but in two posts and this is the first.  For this post I want to point out the obvious and put a stake in the ground.  For all of the hubris about cloud [...]

My intention with this post is to tie quite a few things together.  The first thing to accomplish is a quick review of the previous chapters.

Over at the Enterprise Storage Forum there is a great article on data corruption and various media types for both the Enterprise as well a Consumer cloud markets.  Henry Newman basically looks at the error rates per media type — I find it interesting that tape has a lower error rate than HDDs and it [...]

I ‘ve been reviewing Symantec’s new FileStore and their soon to be released S4 offerings. There are quite a few resources available on FileStore from their slides on the Internet to their product page.  Firstly I want to welcome them to the clustered NAS business much like HP is there already with EXDS, their Polyserve appliance. [...]

Storage Aficionados Know, Ingredients Do Matter!
According to www.merriam-webster.com dictionary definition, an aficionado is a person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a usually fervently pursued interest or activity. Cigars, music, cooking, videos games, movies, baseball statistics, you name it, the term can apply to just about any subject, hobby or passion. From the technical side [...]

Yardena Arar over at the New York Times blogs about Netgear’s new consumer NAS device: Stora.  This device reminds me of the Cobolt Qube from many moons ago and is largely the same form factor.  The added twist for Stora is the Netgear service, MyStora, that can optionally be enabled which is meant to be [...]