by Robin Harris | Monday, September 12, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
VMworld is the best storage show I’ve seen in years. VMware’s severe storage problems leave users hungry for solutions – and your friendly neighborhood storage industry is happy to oblige. It’s almost as if VMware were owned by a storage...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Most business files are only opened a few times, yet remain valuable enough to keep on line, just in case. That cold data is normally stored on high-performance, high-price NAS boxes at $$/GB. Why? 2 years ago Backblaze, an online backup provider, open-sourced their...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 29, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Amazon’s outage was caused by a failure of the underlying storage – the Elastic Block Storage. Here’s what they learned. EBS The Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a distributed and replicated storage optimized for consistent and low latency I/O from EC2...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Megastore handles over 3 billion writes and 20 billion reads daily on almost 8 PB of primary data across many global data centers. In a paper by Jason Baker, Chris Bond, James C. Corbett, JJ Furman, Andrey Khorlin, James Larson, Jean-Michel Léon, Yawei Li, Alexander...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 24, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Talked to a company last week whose cloud app handles several billion transactions per month on a cluster. Sounds like SSDs could help them but how? In a paper from the latest 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR ’11) researchers...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 9, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Given how hard it is to save data you want (see The Universe hates your data) to keep, losing data on the web should be easy. It isn’t, because it gets stored so many places in its travels. Problem But the power of the web means that silliness can now be stored...
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