by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I got a note from David Flynn, co-founder and CTO of Fusion-io (disclosure: I’ve done work for them) in response to The new storage pyramid. He makes several points about the nature of the array model that I wish I’d made. Well worth the read. David...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Valiant but doomed The ZFS discussion thread had an interesting comment from Sun’s Jeff Bonwick, architect of ZFS, on storage device failure modes. How do you know a disk or a tape has failed? You don’t. You wait, while the milliseconds stretch into...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
EMC has announced Hulk/Maui, now known as Atmos. I’m flying to Boston today and don’t have access to EMC’s announcement documents. But I have something better: the papers that provide the theoretical underpinning for Atmos. They provide an in-depth...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 13, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Or a reasonable facsimile thereof If you are interested in Disaster Recovery check out Axxana. They solve the limited synchronous data copy distance problem with a black box designed for data. Concept is simple but getting the details right is hard. The problem...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | Architecture, Disk |
StorageMojo gets questions from baffled civilians out in prospect-land. This one seems worthy of a thorough airing. The writer is a student and a storage newbie, but she has the kind of question that more folks are asking. Here’s her note, edited for clarity: I...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
NetApp is announcing a deal today: use their de-dup software with a new NetApp filer for VMware storage and they guarantee that you’ll need a minimum of 50% less storage. You can be sure that NetApp considers 50% a low bar – 80% is more like it. Why not...
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