Comments on: Enterprise Storage On a Shoestring, Pt. I

By: Federated Array of Bricks - Deja Vu? at Oracloid Blog

Federated Array of Bricks - Deja Vu? at Oracloid Blog — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:58:03 +0000

[...] keeps producing interesting material. This time it’s about FAB (Federated Array of Bricks). I wonder if this will make the same hype as [...]

By: jay

jay — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:57:55 +0000

check out PetaBox (http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php). It is commodity storage solution spun off from Internet Archive.

By: Kemp Watson

Kemp Watson — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:00:14 +0000

Sounds great, but why wait? It’s available right now from Zetera.

By: Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:23:15 +0000

Dave,

I sent the authors a note to alert them to the posts, so let’s see if ther respond.

They have done some more recent work on a new file system and some other stuff that I’ve been looking at.

Robin

By: Dave Holland

Dave Holland — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:18:12 +0000

Robin,

that paper was presented at HOTOS03. Do you know if the prototype implementation has gone any further since then?

By: Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:13:19 +0000

WordPress commenting burped, so loyal reader Lothar sent me this comment:

” Very interesting read – as usual i might add being a software developer in java land i would predict a bright future for this approach. in java development there exist some products (terracotta, tangosol and some others) which take (some of) the complexity out of distributed app development by offering APIs and taking care of the heavy lifting (sync, failover, etc.). exactly what you are talking about here. so i think probably the biggest win will be reduced complexity, the cheaper price tag is more of an extra.”

Lothar, the flattery thing definitely works (see Kevin Closson is a Golden God! Thanks!

Robin