SOA done right: the Amazon strategy
I survived the Google Seattle scalability conferenceAnd Seattle's "summer" weather! The conference was titled "The Seattle Conference on Scalability".
Storage Bits
Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.
Robin Harris
Robin Harris has been messing with computers for over 30 years and selling and marketing data storage for over 20 in companies large and small.
Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton writes for ZDNet's The ToyBox.
Latest Posts
Google's three rules
They roll out new applications for millions of users with surprising speed, especially compared to corporate IT. They build data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers - and millions of disk drives - and run it all on free software.
Blu-ray vs HD DVD: game over
Blu-ray wonThe sturm und drang over the Blu-ray vs HD DVD battle has come to naught. After a bit of jostling Blu-ray has taken an unassailable lead over HD DVD.
How to REALLY erase a hard drive - Update
A new version of HDerase.exe has been releasedGo direct to UCSD's Center for Magnetic Recording Research website to download version 3.
Apple's plan to replace Vista with OS X - on Wintel
You're Apple, Inc. You have a new kick-butt file system, ZFS, that blows away Microsoft's aging NTFS and complements see-and-gotta-have storage tools like Time Machine.
Five things you never knew about flash drives
Flash drives only look like disks. In fact, nothing works the way you'd think.
Mozy Mac client beta watch part <i>deux</i>
Helping Mozy help MacsI'm a big fan of the remote backup concept embodied in Carbonite and Mozy. As a Mac user though I couldn't use either until recently, when Mozy released a beta Mac client.
WD's surprising little drive
IIRC, it was just 15 years ago that Maxtor shipped the first 1 GB, 3.5" drive.
Intel's latest memory problem
Intel can't seem to catch a break. First their highly-touted FB-DIMMs deliver nothing beyond cost and heat.
Windows v.next: less lame than ever
Storage Bits speaks and Microsoft listensRight.In Why is Vista lame?