by Robin Harris | Monday, December 22, 2008 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
The cloud storage hype has been bothering me for some time (see Are there economies of scale in storage?). Even more irritating than the “storage as a service” meme. The problem with cloud storage is threefold: The availability isn’t as good as a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | Backup, Clusters, Video |
Garth Gibson, is one of the authors of the original RAID paper (pdf), CMU professor, founder of the Parallel Data Lab, founder and head of the Petascale Data Storage Institute and founder and CTO of Panasas, a maker of parallel clustered NAS systems. I caught up with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 8, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Everyone in the data storage industry knows about the gap between I/Os per second of disk drives and processor I/O requirements. But there is a similar problem facing DRAM support of many-core chips. Named “the memory wall” by William Wulf and Sally McKee...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I got a note from David Flynn, co-founder and CTO of Fusion-io (disclosure: I’ve done work for them) in response to The new storage pyramid. He makes several points about the nature of the array model that I wish I’d made. Well worth the read. David...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
OK, it is still a pyramid Predictions of the storage array’s death struck some commenters as premature. Commenters raised a host of issues: Cost. Low-end storage arrays are cheaper than clusters. Complexity. The complexity of clustered hardware – all those...
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