by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
StorageMojo has long held the view that our storage workloads are changing: more file storage, less block storage; larger file sizes; and cooler data. While all the indicators said this was happening it’s good to find a study that confirmed this intuition. In...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 4, 2008 | Off-Topic |
In glorious lo-fi monaural! Sterling opportunity to blow another precious hour of your work life in the guise of “continuing education.” Dial-in for a reprise of the keynote I gave at the SNIA summer symposium in San Jose. 5 technologies in search of a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 28, 2008 | Off-Topic |
A global village in the mountains Did you notice the new header picture this week? No? That’s OK. I enjoy taking the pictures anyway. But this picture is from StorageMojo’s new global HQ. There is a spacious office – or it will be once the boxes are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
I’ve been trying to get my head wrapped around IBM’s new XIV product – and not having much luck. When the acquisition was announced Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM system storage, said it would “. . . put IBM in the best position to address...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Jim Gray, in his paper Distributed Computing Economics, (pdf) noted that there is a rough price parity between 10 bytes of network traffic and a megabyte of disk bandwidth. One of his conclusions: computing has to be as close to the data as possible in order to avoid...
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