by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 8, 2006 | Enterprise, Price Lists |
The good folks at 3PAR have been working hard for years to bring you a fast and reasonably scalable storage array. Now you can know how much it will cost. Feast your eyes on a 3PAR Price List. StorageMojo.com compliments the 3PAR product management for not nicking the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | Enterprise, Price Lists |
Want to see the Pillar Data price list? You’ve come to the right place. You know, the startup Larry Ellison spent $150 million on, peering deep into his rearview mirror. Click here. Weirdest thing about the price list: all the little under $5 pieces. Yo, Larry,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
As promised, Martin Green has provided more info on Cnet’s Haystack storage system. Hardly a word about the software, which is where the magic is, but this quote should give the big iron vendors a little shiver. BSU Haystack consists of many Basic Storage Units...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 5, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The redoubtable Ben Rockwood pointed to a YAOSS I hadn’t heard of: Cleversafe. Their Big Idea: take data and split it across many data centers with: Disaster tolerance – like losing 5 out of 11 data centers – and still accessing the total data set...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 1, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Part I discussed performance and and some data integrity features of ZFS. Now for some more cool features and the StorageMojo.com conclusion. Physician, Heal Thyself On-disk bit rot is a real and continuing problem. For a lot of reasons, data can go wrong. The...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 26, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
IMHO, both. In a storage industry where the hardware cost to protect data keeps rising, ZFS represents a software solution to the problem of wobbly disks and data corruption. Thus it is a threat to hardened disk array model of very expensive engineering on the outside...
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