by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
“There is not a lot of added value in commodity ‘storage bricks’” Commented one feisty StorageMojo.com reader last week. I didn’t agree, but I didn’t have a ready answer, either. But now I do: Rackable Systems. You may have heard of...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 13, 2006 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
State-supported industrial espionage has an important ally in the Bush administration. The Department of Homeland Security Theatre has decided it needs to be able rifle through notebook hard drives at the US border. A boon to all online storage providers. Hey, maybe...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 9, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Companies and practitioners spend billions of dollars a year on RAID to protect against disk drive failure. Yet all the research I’ve seen shows that the most common reasons for data loss are, and always have been, caused by people: accidental file deletion and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Are enterprise drives worth the power? Data center power consumption is getting a lot of press play lately. The issue: increased density means that a data center rack that used to need a 2kw may now need 6kw. And for every dollar spent to power equipment, another 40...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 2, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
The StorageMojo take on Boxwood Let me get the negatives out of the way first: Boxwood is a prototype, not a product. While the BoxFS testing is suggestive, the real proof is in application, especially database, performance. An eight node prototype isn’t very...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 1, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
How well does it work? The paper discusses performance testing on the Boxwood prototype, a cluster of eight machines on a Gig E switch. Each machine housed a 2.4 GHz Xeon, 1 GB RAM, dual SCSI ports and 5 15k SCSI drives. Not bad for three years ago. The holy grail of...
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