by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Hyperconvergence – aka aggregation – is pushing scale-out architectures in one direction. But Rack Scale Design (RSD) – aka disaggregation – is pushing scale-out in another direction. And Composable Infrastructure is hoping to split the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 24, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
I wrote about how clouds fail on ZDNet today, but there was another wrinkle in the paper that I found interesting: high redundancy hurts. Counter intuitive? This comes from the paper Gray Failure: The Achilles’ Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems, by Peng Huang, Chuanxiong...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 12, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
After years of skepticism about rack scale design (RSD), StorageMojo is coming around to the idea that it could work. It’s still a lab project, but researchers are making serious progress on the architectural issues. For example, in a recent paper, XFabric: A...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Virtualization |
Lots of energy around the concept of Rack Scale Design (Intel’s nomenclature) in systems design these days. Instead of depositing a cpu, memory, I/O, and storage on a single motherboard, why not have a rack of each, interconnected over a high-bandwidth,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 8, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Virtualization |
The technology wheel is turning again. Yesterday it was converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. Tomorrow it’s composable infrastructure. Check out Liqid a software-and-some-hardware company that I met at NAB. The software – Element – enables you...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 4, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Object storage, Video |
Spent two days at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confab in Las Vegas. With 4k video everywhere, storage was a hot topic as well. Here’s what caught my eye. Object storage – often optimized for large files – continues to be a...
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