by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 7, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Imagine, if you will, a profitable and growing industry. Since it is profitable and growing, the key industry players keep investing, producing new variants to keep buyers interested. Buyers are interested, so sales keep rising. And then one day demand flattens and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Metadata data structures The basic insight of Isilon’s cluster is that they manage files on a pool of blocks. What we know as RAID levels exist on a per file basis, not per array. Unlike Google’s GFS, which only does file replication, Isilon does file...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 26, 2007 | Clusters |
Unexpectedly, this has turned into Isilon Week here at the StorageMojo. I think everyone is excited by Isilon’s successful IPO, the first, I hope, of many for other storage startups. I’ve already commented on Isilon’s surprisingly uninformative...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 25, 2007 | Clusters, Price Lists |
A new addition to StorageMojo.com Price Lists A reader turned me on to them today. I see a number of the guys at Omneon worked at Tektronix, the company I sold to back when I was a dewy-eyed DEC salesman. Tek’s Grass Valley Group was a long-time leader in...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 22, 2007 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
With the IPO completed, interest in Isilon among StorageMojo readers has been growing. So I thought I’d take a gander at their pricing and see how it stacks up. I’m fast tracking this project – doing the writing and analysis concurrently – so...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 12, 2007 | Clusters, Off-Topic |
One of my favorite storage bloggers is NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz. He’s thoughtful, wry and, most important, he doesn’t spend much time pimping NetApp. I particularly enjoyed his recent post about lawyers and the legal system Lawyers Aren’t...
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