by Robin Harris | Friday, September 12, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
Erasure coded (EC) storage has achieved remarkable gains over current RAID arrays in fault-tolerance and storage efficiency, but the knock against it is performance. Sure, it’s highly available and cheap, but it’s slo-o-w. Advanced erasure codes –...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SAN, FC |
Who would have thought, at this late date, that an upstart would appear to challenge high-end EMC, NetApp, HDS and IBM arrays with a fundamentally superior product. But when you don’t have an installed base – and a cash cow – to protect, you can go...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 28, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Several years ago an Intel briefer promised me $50 10Gb Ethernet ports. The shocker: prices have dropped little in the last 8 years – well more than a decade in Internet time. I don’t look back as often as I should. But a note from a ZDNet reader prompted...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 25, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise |
25 years ago I was working on DEC’s earliest RAID array. When I look at today’s “high-end” arrays, it’s shocking how little architectural change the big iron arrays have embraced. The industry is ripe for disruption, only part of which is...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Information Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
The co-founder of Equallogic, Paula Long, is heading up the new startup DataGravity. Their system takes advantage of active/active controllers to bring deep storage inspection to small and medium businesses. What they do DataGravity brings a new level of information...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 4, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Remember Seagate’s Kinetic open storage vision? Turns out there is a shipping product embodying the same ideas – but not from Seagate. Surprised? Huawei’s UDS – Universal Distributed Storage – system launched two years ago with a...
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