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 | 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...
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 | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
The CEO of a – I’m guessing here – specialized Internet services company wrote StorageMojo because of the recent IBRIX acquisition. Here’s what he asked, edited for space. We’re IBRIX customers, and we’re building out a High...
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