by Robin Harris | Monday, April 22, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
In response to the post on Avere’s architecture for fronting backend NAS filers – where StorageMojo said that no front-end to NAS boxes has succeeded – alert reader Jacob Marley asked “What about F5′s ARX to stitch/balance storage across...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 19, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The traditional model of NAS filers is handy if you only have a few. But once you get to 8 or 10 NAs filers your life gets complicated. Your oldest data is on the oldest filer and your active data is on the newest. If that new filer bottlenecks your entire system...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 1, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
Choice is a great thing, unless there’s too much of it. And choice is what we have a lot of in today’s data storage market. A longtime StorageMojo reader has an interesting problem: architect a 3PB data storage facility. Can you help? Here’s what he...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
This came in this morning’s email from a reader I’ll call Perplexed. How would you advise Perplexed? I’m looking at a new iSCSI storage system for two sites with ~ 20 servers each – 10TB each should do it. Picture two fairly usual...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The brains behind the ZFS filesystem – including Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – have been hard at work for several years at start up DSSD. What are they doing with Andy Bechtolsheim’s money? Bill’s recent Usenix bio says that “. . . DSSD,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 15, 2013 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo is focussed on new storage technologies, products, companies and markets. And where do new technologies come from? From people researching at the limits of the known. That’s why StorageMojo attends the Usenix File And Storage Technology (FAST)...
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