by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | Backup, Clusters, Video |
Garth Gibson, is one of the authors of the original RAID paper (pdf), CMU professor, founder of the Parallel Data Lab, founder and head of the Petascale Data Storage Institute and founder and CTO of Panasas, a maker of parallel clustered NAS systems. I caught up with...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
OK, it is still a pyramid Predictions of the storage array’s death struck some commenters as premature. Commenters raised a host of issues: Cost. Low-end storage arrays are cheaper than clusters. Complexity. The complexity of clustered hardware – all those...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Yes, Virginia, the storage industry will survive the crisis Economists and business leaders generally agree that the current, as yet unofficial, recession will be the worst we have seen since the Great Depression. The credit bubble has popped and we are facing global...
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 | Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of the LeftHand Networks shows how cluster storage is going mainstream – and how HP plans to be right in the middle of it. First PolyServe and now LeftHand. This is about commodity-based clusters Not iSCSI or GigE or 10 GigE...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
I’ve been trying to get my head wrapped around IBM’s new XIV product – and not having much luck. When the acquisition was announced Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM system storage, said it would “. . . put IBM in the best position to address...
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