by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 28, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Several years ago an Intel briefer promised me $50 10Gb Ethernet ports. The shocker: prices have dropped little in the last 8 years – well more than a decade in Internet time. I don’t look back as often as I should. But a note from a ZDNet reader prompted...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 15, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
Google and Amazon have armies of PhDs to design, manage and diagnose their scale-out systems. Few small to medium sized businesses do – nor should they – but they should still have the advantages of scale-out infrastructure. Imagine infrastructure that...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 4, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Remember Seagate’s Kinetic open storage vision? Turns out there is a shipping product embodying the same ideas – but not from Seagate. Surprised? Huawei’s UDS – Universal Distributed Storage – system launched two years ago with a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 5, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, Virtualization |
Open vStorage is a new virtual storage system coming out of stealth mode. Designed to enable virtual machines to run directly from object storage, it is a layer between the hypervisor and the object store with the goal of turning object storage – as well as...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 23, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Tired of Fibre Channel? Bored with Ethernet? Infiniband not enough? EMC has a new idea: a PCIe SAN. PCIe is part of their DSSD plan. A good question is: will customers buy it? A better question is: what is EMC talking about? EMC‘s head of product operations, Jeremy...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
This is big. In new SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 tests Avere’s FXT 3800 clustered edge filers achieved something remarkable: performance using Cleversafe and Amazon S3 cloud backends that were every bit as good as local backing stores. Avere tested 4 systems: A 32-node...
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