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 | 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...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It isn’t about the capacity. It’s the performance. I few weeks ago I asked StorageMojo readers to help out Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor research firm. They did, and Jim got some surprising results. Now that I have finished interviewing...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 28, 2011 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Update: The survey is now closed. Thanks to everyone who responded! I’ll have more later on the results. End update. StorageMojo would like your help. TechnoQWAN LLC, StorageMojo’s publisher, is a research and analysis firm. An IT supplier has retained us...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 17, 2011 | Architecture, Future Tech |
After a quick scan of the paper titles I wasn’t impressed. But after seeing presentations and posters I am. Here’s some I found interesting. I’ll be posting longer pieces on some of these. A Study of Practical Deduplication Full paper *Best Paper...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 30, 2011 | Architecture, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The performance increase in individual CPUs is slowing to a crawl. All the easy wins – higher clock speeds, wider datapaths, more DRAM, larger registers and caches, 2-4 cores – have been exploited. Doctor, is there any hope? In the recent PCAST report on...
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