by Robin Harris | Monday, October 13, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Or a reasonable facsimile thereof If you are interested in Disaster Recovery check out Axxana. They solve the limited synchronous data copy distance problem with a black box designed for data. Concept is simple but getting the details right is hard. The problem...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of the LeftHand Networks shows how cluster storage is going mainstream – and how HP plans to be right in the middle of it. First PolyServe and now LeftHand. This is about commodity-based clusters Not iSCSI or GigE or 10 GigE...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
NetApp is announcing a deal today: use their de-dup software with a new NetApp filer for VMware storage and they guarantee that you’ll need a minimum of 50% less storage. You can be sure that NetApp considers 50% a low bar – 80% is more like it. Why not...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
StorageMojo has long held the view that our storage workloads are changing: more file storage, less block storage; larger file sizes; and cooler data. While all the indicators said this was happening it’s good to find a study that confirmed this intuition. In...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
I’ve been trying to get my head wrapped around IBM’s new XIV product – and not having much luck. When the acquisition was announced Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM system storage, said it would “. . . put IBM in the best position to address...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Jim Gray, in his paper Distributed Computing Economics, (pdf) noted that there is a rough price parity between 10 bytes of network traffic and a megabyte of disk bandwidth. One of his conclusions: computing has to be as close to the data as possible in order to avoid...
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