Category Archives: System quality

VMware’s CEO at EMCWorld

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Ray

At EMCWorld earlier this week, Paul Maritz CEO of VMware took center stage and talked about what they were doing to help customers in their journey to the cloud. From his perspective, there seems to be 3 phases to the journey … Continue reading →

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(SBIR NGA11-002) Novel Methods of Interacting with Overhead Imagery

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Ray

I sometimes look over the latest SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) topics that come out to see if there’s anything interesting. Normally the DOD SBIRs (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc. agencies) have some way out stuff they are looking to … Continue reading →

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AT&T personal hotspot on iPhone

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Ray

I have been tied to local WIFI hot spots at most hotels and other venues for quite awhile but a recent trip to Japan where WiFi was less available, got me thinking about getting a Verizon MiFi or other personal … Continue reading →

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The problems with digital audio archives

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Ray

A recent article in Rolling Stone (File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis) laments the fact that digital recordings can go out of service due to format changes, plugin changes, and/or files not being readable (file not found). … Continue reading →

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Commodity hardware always loses

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Ray

A recent post by Stephen Foskett has revisted a blog discussion that Chuck Hollis and I had on commodity vs. special purpose hardware.  It’s clear to me that commodity hardware is a losing proposition for the storage industry and for … Continue reading →

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What eMLC and eSLC do for SSD longevity

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Ray

I talked last week with some folks from Nimbus Data who were discussing their new storage subsystem.  Apparently it uses eMLC (enterprise Multi-Level Cell) NAND SSDs for its storage and has no SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND at all. Nimbus … Continue reading →

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To iPad or not to iPad – part 3

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Ray

Well I did take the iPad and BlueTooth (BT) keypad to a short conference a couple of weeks ago and it was a disaster unlike what I envisioned in Parts 1 & 2 of this saga.  It turns out that … Continue reading →

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Better storage through hardware

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Ray

Chuck Hollis from EMC wrote a post last week on Storage is software about how hardware parts are becoming commoditized and so highly functional that future storage differentiation will only come from software.  I commented that hardware differentiation is also becoming … Continue reading →

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