Random Thoughts

As expected from conference schedule, Google conference turned out to be a technical event primarily focused on parallel programming and inf...

This weekend, I read NY Times article Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam . Last year, by one estimate, the video site YouTube...

Even though, Google doesn’t share a lot of details of their infrastructure, as we have seen from limited published information, they are obs...

Earlier this week, I had great conversation with Gary Orenstien and Jack O’Brien at Gear6 . Here are the excerpts from our conversation. How...

Recently, I came across an interesting article published in 2004 comparing growth, reasons and handling imbalance between bandwidth and late...

Since my first post about Gear6 , Gary Orenstein and I have been exchanging emails discussing various aspects of storage caching and Gear6...

Last October, Gear6 came to my attention. But it didn't really hit home until a well-informed end-user talked to me about them at SNW. ...

Now the title and image caught your attention, the big let down is this post has no housewives to offer! It is about distributing episodes o...

Most IT departments are having difficulties in addressing IT infrastructure monitoring and management requirements due to Limited resources ...

Continuing from last blog post , Google report [PDF] also shares their analysis based on disk self-monitoring data and identifies important...

Few months ago, I came to know that Google will be publishing a detailed report on disk drive failure rates in their environment. Prior to t...

Continuing my thoughts on success factors for a video distribution infrastructure play like GridNetworks from previous post ... As Michael ...

Click here for the first part. Third, GridNetworks piqued my interest with the use of word “Grid” in the company name. Grid is a powerful ...

As I mentioned in my post, Challenges of High Quality Video Delivery , last week, I spent an hour with Newell Edmond, Co-founder and Amy, Pr...

Since Google acquired YouTube, online video sharing and delivery segment has been hot topic of discussion. A good overview of online video v...

As soon as I finished my last rant (See, Infrastructure Failure - Be Paranoid ), a reader pointed out a similar incident close to home, at F...

Just after writing my previous blog post Data Center Power Consumption and Heat Generation , I came across an interesting blog post with 400...

This morning, I read interesting news about LBNL, Sun and others demonstrating DC power distribution in data center as a way to reduce power...

For the past few weeks, I wasn't able to post regularly due to a very hectic schedule. So I am trying to write a series of quick short c...