by Robin Harris | Monday, August 31, 2009 | Future Tech, Information Management, Marketing |
With the release of Snow Leopard it is now official: no ZFS – anywhere – in Mac OS 10.6. Given that Apple went to the trouble of announcing it last year as part of Snow Leopard Server this is quite a reversal. The question is why? Many theories I wrote...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 27, 2009 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Chris Mellor of The Register considers whether STEC’s lead in the high-performance SSD space is sustainable. When competition does arrive in the enterprise SSD market, and as STEC starts competing in the more price-sensitive server flash market, then its early...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 24, 2009 | Disk |
Triple your data center’s storage capacity – without increasing power consumption or reducing performance. How? Going for the green Everyone talks about green, but in storage arrays it is the power consumption of the disks that dominates. A power-saving...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Bigtable to the rescue (sort of) In Part 1, Sean Quinlan, a Google engineer, related how the original GFS single master architecture became a bottleneck. But since Google controls its entire software stack from OS to apps, it could compensate by tweaking the apps and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 17, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
A couple of years ago at the first Seattle Conference on Scalability, Google’s Jeffrey Dean remarked that the company wanted 100x more scalability. Unsurprising given the rapid growth of the web. But there was more to it than that: GFS – the Google File...
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