by Robin Harris | Monday, June 19, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
Imagine we had to reprint all the world’s books every 5 years to preserve them. Would we? Could we? That is the flip side of Quick Disk Erase (the previous post): data preservation. Storage pros focus on device availability and redundancy, but these are the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 16, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
What about the data center investments of Yahoo, Google and Microsoft? Microsoft has commited to spend over $2.5B on capital and acquisitions – much of it to compete with Google. Yahoo will also likely spend about $1B just on computers and equipment. Google will...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Regular readers are well versed on Google’s GFS file system. This article from the International Herald Tribune gives an update on their new Dalles, Oregon datacenter with dual four story cooling towers. Besides cheap hydro power and great windsurfing, IHT...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
The ZFS team has been busy. Just last week they finished adding: Hot spares Clone swap Double parity RAID-Z – or what we might call RAID-6 variable-width stripes And In Other News News to me: Eric Schrock is one of the ZFS engineers. Eric’s father, MIT...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 12, 2006 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
NetApp’s announcement of multi-petabyte namespace support in its Data Ontap GX 7G storage operating system – my, doesn’t that just roll off the tongue! – should allow it corner several shrinking HPC markets. Industrial Light & Magic used...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 11, 2006 | Enterprise |
So I’m reading the EMC analyst day presentations of Joe Tucci, Mark Lewis and Diane Greene. The analysts in question are Wall Street financial analysts. Some of them are pretty knowledgeable about IT, but their money comes from predicting earnings-per-share and...
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