So I’ve been thinking a lot lately. I keep coming back to an idea I theorized a year or so ago, where eventually, as x86 servers have now become, hypervisors themselves will eventually become a commodity. The theory extends around…
(This post is the second of a series of posts I will be publishing over the next few weeks on storage paradigm shifts, focusing on NetApp’s new DataONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode. You can read the first post here.) Picking right back…
(This post is the first of a series of posts I will be publishing over the next few weeks on storage paradigm shifts, focusing on NetApp’s new DataONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode) For a few years now, we’ve heard the catch phrase,…
Keypunch card from Columbia University Computer Center’s IBM 360 This post is full of a lot of my own personal hypothesis, theorycrafting, and general soap-box-ish-ness. But I figured we should set the stage a bit and start out with…
Dear Mr. Jobs, As a child, I was first introduced to Apple on the Apple IIe platform, playing Oregon Trail in middle and high school. But that was the extent of it. I was raised on the various 486 PC’s…
