by Robin Harris | Friday, June 21, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, Information Management |
We want our data protected from device failures. When there is a failure we want to get our data back quickly. And we want to pay as little as possible for the protection and the restore. How? Recent research by hyper-scale system managers – mostly Microsoft and...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 19, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The traditional model of NAS filers is handy if you only have a few. But once you get to 8 or 10 NAs filers your life gets complicated. Your oldest data is on the oldest filer and your active data is on the newest. If that new filer bottlenecks your entire system...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 1, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
Choice is a great thing, unless there’s too much of it. And choice is what we have a lot of in today’s data storage market. A longtime StorageMojo reader has an interesting problem: architect a 3PB data storage facility. Can you help? Here’s what he...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender problem. But we also had that problem when we were running...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 25, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise |
Hewlett-Packard made a major announcement in December: their grid-based StoreServ 7000 based on 3PAR software. 3PAR has been selling enterprise-class storage for almost a decade and HP is building on that legacy with a radical take on enterprise storage. HP calls it...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 23, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
The post-RAID (noRAID) era has begun. While RAID arrays aren’t going away, the growth is elsewhere, and corporate investment follows growth. Why now? There are now architecturally superior alternatives to RAID that are lower cost. But you could argue that the...
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