Comments on: Start-up Watch: Gear6 and Njini http://storagemojo.com/2006/07/18/start-up-watch-gear6-and-njini/ Data storage info & analysis Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:38:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Robert Pearson http://storagemojo.com/2006/07/18/start-up-watch-gear6-and-njini/#comment-3616 Robert Pearson Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:04:01 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=196#comment-3616 With regard to the Gear6 approach... The end result is the same for the Gear6 approach and one using Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs. The difference is scalability and the way the I/O bandwidth is flexed. Adding, or removing, an SFF PC can be as simple as turning it on or off, or adding it to or taking it off-network. At the Enterprise level, the real difference is server class motherboards versus SFF PC "workstation" class motherboards for I/O performance. In the Triangle of Unobtainium the choices are any two of the three corners of the triangle. Those corners are: 1) Fast 2) Cheap 3) Good Today "Fast and Cheap" is considered "Good enough (the 80% solution)". The SFF PC solution looks pretty good using a less than $100 for an SFF PC motherboard delivering RISC Workstation I/O perfomance. Think of this as the "I/O Swarm". This would be in support of the "Storage Swarm". Now if I can only find some COTS Manageware? With regard to the Gear6 approach…

The end result is the same for the Gear6 approach and one using
Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs. The difference is scalability and the way
the I/O bandwidth is flexed.
Adding, or removing, an SFF PC can be as simple as turning it on or off,
or adding it to or taking it off-network.
At the Enterprise level, the real difference is server class motherboards versus SFF PC “workstation” class motherboards for I/O performance.

In the Triangle of Unobtainium the choices are any two of the three
corners of the triangle. Those corners are:
1) Fast
2) Cheap
3) Good

Today “Fast and Cheap” is considered “Good enough (the 80% solution)”.
The SFF PC solution looks pretty good using a less than $100 for an SFF
PC motherboard delivering RISC Workstation I/O perfomance.

Think of this as the “I/O Swarm”. This would be in support of the “Storage
Swarm”.

Now if I can only find some COTS Manageware?

]]> By: Robert Pearson http://storagemojo.com/2006/07/18/start-up-watch-gear6-and-njini/#comment-3615 Robert Pearson Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:34:28 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=196#comment-3615 You've gotta love njini. I have. Since I first heard about it in 2005. The njini approach is the way to the Storage "Wave of the Future". Only time wil tell if njini is there for the long run. My guess is they will be bought by a really big fish soon. You’ve gotta love njini.
I have. Since I first heard about it in 2005.
The njini approach is the way to the Storage “Wave of the Future”.
Only time wil tell if njini is there for the long run. My guess is they will
be bought by a really big fish soon.

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