by Robin Harris | Sunday, December 6, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
Virtual machines (VMs) solve the problem of many tiny servers on a big server. VMs are a logical outgrowth of Moore’s Law: server CPUs got bigger, faster, than the apps required. And Windows Server didn’t handle multiple apps well. But the growth of 100...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Xsigo (see-go) produces an I/O consolidation appliance whose elegance impresses. I/O clutter Typical blade servers have several I/O adapters for networks and storage. Today’s multi-CPU – each multi-core – mobo’s need much bandwidth to stay...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
A recent post on the dumb disk fallacy argues that enterprise storage isn’t overpriced. That misses the point: enterprise arrays may not be overpriced – but they overshoot most market requirements. That’s why there’s so much innovation in the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Architecture, Information Management |
Ding, dong. PC file system progress took a giant step back this week with the news on MacOSforge that Apple’s ZFS project has been discontinued. ZFS Project Shutdown 2009-10-23 The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 12, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Sun announced the, or removed from stealth mode, the F5100, their flash-based storage array that uses SO-DIMM form-factor flash modules (see last month’s post for the StorageMojo take on the unannounced product). With 20 flash modules and 480 GB of capacity it...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, October 10, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A 2½ year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought — a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. Another piece of hallowed Conventional Wisdom bites the dust. Google...
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