by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 28, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise |
Quantum announced a new deduplication appliance series – the DXi 6701 and 6702 – that claims exceptional scalability. Why? Because it uses technology from Quantum’s StorNext cluster file system. Scale out Quantum says the units grow from 8 to 80TB of...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 25, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Management |
Commenters on the last post – Open source storage array – helped crystallize an idea that’s been lurking for years: comparing disk storage hardware on per-slot price. The Backblaze box, which costs about $50/slot, got a comment that said, in effect,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Most business files are only opened a few times, yet remain valuable enough to keep on line, just in case. That cold data is normally stored on high-performance, high-price NAS boxes at $$/GB. Why? 2 years ago Backblaze, an online backup provider, open-sourced their...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 5, 2011 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
Deduplication has been accepted as an enterprise-class compression technology. Is it time for data compression to be a standard feature of primary storage? I’ve been doing some work for Nimble Storage a cool Valley startup. Talking to co-founder Varun Mehta, he...
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