by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 5, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Sometimes in the midst of the endless tweaking needed to maximize storage performance one just wants to say “screw it! Put everything in RAM!” And that’s just what RAMCloud does. Disk is the new tape, flash the new disk, DRAM the new flash. RAMCloud...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 3, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
One more datapoint and we’ll have a trend: NoSQL databases managing metadata. It’s obvious in retrospect: use a scalable big data tool to handle scale-out metadata. Maybe not a requirement today, but surely will be with even bigger data tomorrow. Metadata...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, SOHO/SMB, Video |
I sat down with Nimble Storage co-founder and VP of engineering Varun Mehta to discuss their architecture – and shoot some video. Varun has been part of several Valley success stories – NetApp, Sun, Data Domain – and has a first hand perspective on...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 28, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise |
Quantum announced a new deduplication appliance series – the DXi 6701 and 6702 – that claims exceptional scalability. Why? Because it uses technology from Quantum’s StorNext cluster file system. Scale out Quantum says the units grow from 8 to 80TB of...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 25, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Management |
Commenters on the last post – Open source storage array – helped crystallize an idea that’s been lurking for years: comparing disk storage hardware on per-slot price. The Backblaze box, which costs about $50/slot, got a comment that said, in effect,...
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...
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