by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Most business files are only opened a few times, yet remain valuable enough to keep on line, just in case. That cold data is normally stored on high-performance, high-price NAS boxes at $$/GB. Why? 2 years ago Backblaze, an online backup provider, open-sourced their...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 5, 2011 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
Deduplication has been accepted as an enterprise-class compression technology. Is it time for data compression to be a standard feature of primary storage? I’ve been doing some work for Nimble Storage a cool Valley startup. Talking to co-founder Varun Mehta, he...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | Off-Topic |
There’s a new tab in the StorageMojo navbar: Careers. It’s a new service for readers and the storage industry. Like StorageMojo it is focused on emerging companies, markets, products and technologies – and the people who make them happen. And like...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 27, 2011 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A post last month in ACM’s Queue raised a disturbing point around block-level deduplication in flash SSDs: it could hose your file system. De-dup is a Good Thing, right? Researchers found that at least 1 Sandforce SSD controller – the SF1200 – does...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 20, 2011 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
IT pros are always skeptical about new technology. Is it surprising that flash SSD’s are getting the gimlet eye? The big worry seems to be endurance. Nobody wants to buy an expensive SSD and have it fail after a year on the job. But IT infrastructures are...
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