by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Storage Cost and Implementation The Internet Data Center (IDC) is architected very differently from an Enterprise Data Center (EDC). In an EDC, RAID arrays are used to hide the disk’s physical limitations. In the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 24, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Introduction: Internet Scale vs Enterprise Scale The rise of the Internet Data Center (IDC), such as Amazon, Google and Yahoo, in the last 10 years is perhaps the fastest and most radical transformation in information...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 21, 2006 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The Storage Forum provides a brief review of the open source FreeNAS project. FreeNAS is a small (less than 16MB) operating system based on FreeBSD 6 that provides free Network-Attached Storage services: CIFS, FTP and NFS. The money quote: Testing I did in my lab with...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 20, 2006 | Enterprise, Off-Topic |
Update: Three Brocade Execs Face SEC Charges – Greg Reyes Has Also Been Indicted For Fraud See the SEC complaint here (Wall Street Journal Online subscription may be required). No, Not Another Rant About Pricing Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The biggest knock against the X4500 I’ve heard is that it is too expensive. From a storage perspective it is actually absurdly cheap compared to the 5-10x charged by the name-brand storage vendors – and for lower data integrity than the X4500/ZFS system...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
A couple of startup funding announcements caught my eye yesterday, and when I looked a little further I found them both intriguing – but maybe not for the reasons investors would like. Gear6 is focused on the Server-Storage Performance Gap, which hasn’t...
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