by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Forget the flame wars over moving window versus fixed block de-duplication. A recent paper, A Study of Practical Deduplication (pdf) from William J. Bolosky of Microsoft Research and Dutch T. Meyer of the University of British Columbia found that whole file...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 29, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Amazon’s outage was caused by a failure of the underlying storage – the Elastic Block Storage. Here’s what they learned. EBS The Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a distributed and replicated storage optimized for consistent and low latency I/O from EC2...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Megastore handles over 3 billion writes and 20 billion reads daily on almost 8 PB of primary data across many global data centers. In a paper by Jason Baker, Chris Bond, James C. Corbett, JJ Furman, Andrey Khorlin, James Larson, Jean-Michel Léon, Yawei Li, Alexander...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 14, 2011 | Enterprise, Marketing |
John Chamber’s epiphany – driven by a stock price swoon – that Cisco should stick to its knitting has another logical conclusion: dump the benighted Universal Computing System. But is the damage already so bad that Cisco is damned if it does and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 11, 2011 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It sounds unlikely: technology that makes MLC flash as reliable and long-lived as more expensive SLC? Right! Or even better: make 3 bit per cell flash equivalent to 2 bit MLC? What are these guys smoking? Whatever it is, I’d like to try some myself. Because it...
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