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...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Valiant but doomed The ZFS discussion thread had an interesting comment from Sun’s Jeff Bonwick, architect of ZFS, on storage device failure modes. How do you know a disk or a tape has failed? You don’t. You wait, while the milliseconds stretch into...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Yes, Virginia, the storage industry will survive the crisis Economists and business leaders generally agree that the current, as yet unofficial, recession will be the worst we have seen since the Great Depression. The credit bubble has popped and we are facing global...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 17, 2008 | Off-Topic |
EMC’s Atmos, the product formerly known as Hulk/Maui, has gotten the full EMC marketing machine treatment. With a twist: EMC is rolling the dice on an unproven concept. If it’s eat lunch or be lunch, EMC prefers to dine. I like it. The pig I covered...
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