by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 7, 2006 | Future Tech |
At SNW I met with Claude Lorenson, Ph.D., Group Product Manager for Windows Server Marketing. If you can decode that title and triangulate where he sits in the MS corporate huddle you are a more informed man than I. I’d met Claude several years ago when MS was...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Are enterprise drives worth the power? Data center power consumption is getting a lot of press play lately. The issue: increased density means that a data center rack that used to need a 2kw may now need 6kw. And for every dollar spent to power equipment, another 40...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 3, 2006 | Off-Topic |
StorageMojo’s rigorously unscientific survey My absolute favorite product – and I haven’t the faintest idea whether it works or not – is the StoreWiz compression appliance. It sits in front of your big NAS box – the more expensive the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 2, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
The StorageMojo take on Boxwood Let me get the negatives out of the way first: Boxwood is a prototype, not a product. While the BoxFS testing is suggestive, the real proof is in application, especially database, performance. An eight node prototype isn’t very...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 1, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
How well does it work? The paper discusses performance testing on the Boxwood prototype, a cluster of eight machines on a Gig E switch. Each machine housed a 2.4 GHz Xeon, 1 GB RAM, dual SCSI ports and 5 15k SCSI drives. Not bad for three years ago. The holy grail of...
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