by Robin Harris | Monday, October 5, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Okay, we’ve figured out how to produce protected storage for $100 a terabyte . It has wide fan out so the bandwidth is modest. It uses large SATA disks so it isn’t great from an IOPS perspective either. But it works. What would it take to turn it into something...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, October 3, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
HP’s Tech Days this week in Colorado Springs impressed on two levels. First, their willingness to engage with the analysts and writers tagged with the disreputable term “blogger.†Second, the quality of the strategy they outlined for a unified computing and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 21, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
A new web scale – they claim linear scaling to 50,000 nodes — filesystem from MaxiScale has some interesting wrinkles. Wrinkle #1 – like several of the largest Web scale filesystems MaxiScale does not use RAID. Instead, it replicates files among peer...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 14, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
High-end big iron storage arrays have long owned the transaction processing market. The big relational database systems need all the I/O and availability you can give them. But what if we didn’t need big relational databases? What then? RDBMS – RIP? On his...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The 4 TB Sun F5100 Flash Array product launch is imminent. Much talked up by Andy Bechtolsheim the 1U array promises 1 million IOPS, 10 GB/sec throughput, 64 SAS channels, redundant power & cooling and SES management. Beyond the raw performance the F5110 is...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Bigtable to the rescue (sort of) In Part 1, Sean Quinlan, a Google engineer, related how the original GFS single master architecture became a bottleneck. But since Google controls its entire software stack from OS to apps, it could compensate by tweaking the apps and...
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