by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 16, 2017 | Architecture, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Panasas has long been one of the most innovative storage companies – and the industry’s best kept secret. The latter fact is due to their focus on High Performance Computing (HPC), and a steadfast refusal to market themselves as “enterprise”...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Hyperconvergence – aka aggregation – is pushing scale-out architectures in one direction. But Rack Scale Design (RSD) – aka disaggregation – is pushing scale-out in another direction. And Composable Infrastructure is hoping to split the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 22, 2017 | Off-Topic |
Things have been a bit quiet here at Chez Mojo – at least on the publishing side. One the personal side I’ve been busy with a few things, one being a move to a new place. Not much of a move – about 100 yards as the crow flies – but packing...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 24, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
I wrote about how clouds fail on ZDNet today, but there was another wrinkle in the paper that I found interesting: high redundancy hurts. Counter intuitive? This comes from the paper Gray Failure: The Achilles’ Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems, by Peng Huang, Chuanxiong...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 17, 2017 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Hike blogging has been on hiatus for several reasons, including no good pictures, packing up for a short move, too much rain – it’s monsoon time now – and I’ve been getting back to biking as well. But this morning got out at 630 on to the Twin...
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