by Robin Harris | Monday, August 24, 2009 | Disk |
Triple your data center’s storage capacity – without increasing power consumption or reducing performance. How? Going for the green Everyone talks about green, but in storage arrays it is the power consumption of the disks that dominates. A power-saving...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Bigtable to the rescue (sort of) In Part 1, Sean Quinlan, a Google engineer, related how the original GFS single master architecture became a bottleneck. But since Google controls its entire software stack from OS to apps, it could compensate by tweaking the apps and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 17, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
A couple of years ago at the first Seattle Conference on Scalability, Google’s Jeffrey Dean remarked that the company wanted 100x more scalability. Unsurprising given the rapid growth of the web. But there was more to it than that: GFS – the Google File...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 10, 2009 | Off-Topic |
StorageMojo’s Global HQ is packing up for cooler climes later this week. If your SoCal company would like some face time please either comment or email. Always interested in emerging technologies, companies or products. The StorageMojo take Avoid the crowds at...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 7, 2009 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Steve Jones of BT sent in the following, which I am publishing – with his permission – as a guest post. It has been edited and some headers added so any dodgy parts may not be his fault. Begin the guest post: SSD vs storage arrays I thought it was worth...
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