The company I’ve worked for since July of last year – Nasuni Corporation (a startup in Massachusetts) has gone live! This is the culmination of a lot of hard, but exceedingly fun and exciting work over the past months.
The Nasuni team is an excellent one – and one I am very, very proud to [...]
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I saw this post on Slashdot the other day – it’s a paper called “ Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population“. It’s a good read for anyone in the storage business – hell, it’s a good read for anyone interested in computer. In section 5, under conclusions, they state:
In this study we report [...]
That’s right. My awesome employer, a storage startup called Archivas is being purchased by Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Limited.
This is of course, awesome new for us as a company – but on a personal level this purchase shows a belief and commitment on the part of Hitachi when it comes [...]
HDS, Archivas team on fixed-content archiving
Hitachi Data Systems and Archivas Forge Global Partnership to Create Solutions for a New “Active Archive†Market Space
And that’s all I am going to say about that.
You should read this: The essence of a long-term digital archive
An excellent article describing digital archives in the modern IT field. For most people, this article might seem irrelevant (in the scope of things I have talked about previously – it is). However, given that this is the field I work in, it’s a subject [...]
First, I saw this:Question: “What exactly is python used for…
The question itself is inane – but the answer is what caught my eyes.
To Quote:
Too busy to answer properly, but I’ll just mention that Fermilab uses a home-grown python package called Enstore to manage their data store of 3 Petabytes of physics data, growing at 1PB/year. [...]
