Comments on: 2009′s big STORies http://storagemojo.com/2009/12/28/2009s-big-stories/ Data storage info & analysis Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:31:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Visiotech http://storagemojo.com/2009/12/28/2009s-big-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-207450 Visiotech Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:02:44 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=1760#comment-207450 On your Tiny server clusters, if I can run several independent apps on my little laptop why servers cannot run more than one apps at the time native or without some kind of server virtualization? What is wrong with this approach? I think OS and applications architects must look backward at mainframe like to save cost on management and software cost who's now higher than hardware cost. Get ride of these high cost virtualization, duplicate software/storage license fees and go native...if the OS with several apps can stand...like the old IBM mainframe does since years... Typical Small/Medium size corporations scenario... Is your corporation truly need 10 database servers and licenses to create 2GB of new data per day? Is your corporation need to maintain less than 2TB worth of active data...when it can now be store on a less than a handful of disks...or few SSD with server memory... Is your databases servers containing more than 60% the same information... Here is what I call cost saving... 2010 should be the applications and OS re-engineering. Just after we've done just about everything we possibly could on the hardware side...server and storage virtualization included. On your Tiny server clusters, if I can run several independent apps on my little laptop why servers cannot run more than one apps at the time native or without some kind of server virtualization? What is wrong with this approach?

I think OS and applications architects must look backward at mainframe like to save cost on management and software cost who’s now higher than hardware cost.

Get ride of these high cost virtualization, duplicate software/storage license fees and go native…if the OS with several apps can stand…like the old IBM mainframe does since years…

Typical Small/Medium size corporations scenario…

Is your corporation truly need 10 database servers and licenses to create 2GB of new data per day?

Is your corporation need to maintain less than 2TB worth of active data…when it can now be store on a less than a handful of disks…or few SSD with server memory…

Is your databases servers containing more than 60% the same information…

Here is what I call cost saving…

2010 should be the applications and OS re-engineering. Just after we’ve done just about everything we possibly could on the hardware side…server and storage virtualization included.

]]> By: Robin Harris http://storagemojo.com/2009/12/28/2009s-big-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-207376 Robin Harris Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:56:54 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=1760#comment-207376 Re: #6 - boy, HTML sure can be finicky! Not exactly sure what I did wrong, but it's fixed now. Robin Re: #6 – boy, HTML sure can be finicky! Not exactly sure what I did wrong, but it’s fixed now.

Robin

]]> By: nomen http://storagemojo.com/2009/12/28/2009s-big-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-207374 nomen Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:19:16 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=1760#comment-207374 What happened to 6? What happened to 6?

]]> By: Andrey Kuzmin http://storagemojo.com/2009/12/28/2009s-big-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-207373 Andrey Kuzmin Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:17:29 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=1760#comment-207373 Agree with Tom, but I'd rather nominate zfs in general (including Sun's FishWorks) in top '09 storage stories. May be this is what #6 in your list was left vacant for :). Agree with Tom, but I’d rather nominate zfs in general (including Sun’s FishWorks) in top ’09 storage stories. May be this is what #6 in your list was left vacant for :) .

]]> By: Dave http://storagemojo.com/2009/12/28/2009s-big-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-207368 Dave Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:36:05 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=1760#comment-207368 I wonder how Sun's recent round of layoffs affects that statement? I wonder how Sun’s recent round of layoffs affects that statement?

]]> By: Tom http://storagemojo.com/2009/12/28/2009s-big-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-207363 Tom Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:54:41 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=1760#comment-207363 deduplication built into ZFS is surely bigger then ZFS not in MacOSX. I can build a storage system with compression, deduplication, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, snapshots and triple parity RAID by downloading free software and installing it on commodity hardware. deduplication built into ZFS is surely bigger then ZFS not in MacOSX.

I can build a storage system with compression, deduplication, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, snapshots and triple parity RAID by downloading free software and installing it on commodity hardware.

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