by Robin Harris | Monday, August 17, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
A couple of years ago at the first Seattle Conference on Scalability, Google’s Jeffrey Dean remarked that the company wanted 100x more scalability. Unsurprising given the rapid growth of the web. But there was more to it than that: GFS – the Google File...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 7, 2009 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Steve Jones of BT sent in the following, which I am publishing – with his permission – as a guest post. It has been edited and some headers added so any dodgy parts may not be his fault. Begin the guest post: SSD vs storage arrays I thought it was worth...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 30, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Management |
Check out their homepage and, as of today, “This page is not here yet….” That recursive mindbender is an apt introduction. Who – and what – is RisingTide Systems? StorageMojo spoke to founder Marc Fleischman to find out. The StorageMojo...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 16, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing |
Microsoft has VMware in its sights and there will be blood. Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, gave what reads like a real barn-burner speech at the MS partner’s conference. He covered a lot of ground, but this stark warning to EMC/VMware was the toughest. He...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 29, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
As the economics of data storage push more and more data onto disks, the energy efficiency of data storage is ever more critical. Storage is anti-entropic, so keeping bits organized requires energy. How can we minimize that energy input? Data cooling is the major...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
Jeff Darcy has a good post on key data stores, like Amazon’s Dynamo, and how they differ from filesystems and databases. He relates his transition from a filesystem purist to a more flexible perspective. The thing that really changed my mind about this was an...
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