by Robin Harris | Monday, May 7, 2012 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Spoke to Chris Gladwin, founder and CEO of Cleversafe at NAB 2012. Cleversafe had stopped communicating a few years ago – usually a bad sign – so an update was long overdue. When last heard from, Cleversafe had an ISP/MSP target market, offered an...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Our digital civilization requires data integrity and long-term preservation, and neither is assured by our current storage infrastructure. But progress continues. Latest case in point: Amplidata. This 4 year old company, based in Belgium with a growing US footprint,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
BlueArc and Drobo founder Geoff Barrall has a new perch: Gridstore, one of the companies I’ve been following for almost 3 years. Geoff is the new executive chairman. Formal announcement is expected this week. Gridstore’s concept is a low-cost scale-out NAS...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Amazon Web Services architect James Hamilton has been posting on network issues for over a year and researching them much longer. As Ethernet becomes the de facto SAN technology, his views become more relevant to the larger storage market. Critique Part of Mr....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 5, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Sometimes in the midst of the endless tweaking needed to maximize storage performance one just wants to say “screw it! Put everything in RAM!” And that’s just what RAMCloud does. Disk is the new tape, flash the new disk, DRAM the new flash. RAMCloud...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 3, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
One more datapoint and we’ll have a trend: NoSQL databases managing metadata. It’s obvious in retrospect: use a scalable big data tool to handle scale-out metadata. Maybe not a requirement today, but surely will be with even bigger data tomorrow. Metadata...
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