by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The world of data storage is changing faster than it has since the mid-90’s amid the rise of hardware arrays and storage networks. Looking back 2008 will be seen as a pivotal year. The big news, in rough ascending order: FCoE Though production-ready products are...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 2, 2009 | Disk, Video |
Funny and provocative video (thanks David!) from Sun demonstrating 2 things: 15k drives are vibration sensitive – in this case to a shout a couple of inches away. That Sun’s Fishworks analysis suite enables realtime analysis of storage behavior. Bad, bad,...
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...
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