by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Imagine cloud storage that didn’t cost much more than bare drives. High density storage with RAID 6 protection, reasonable bandwidth and web-friendly HTTPS access. And really, really cheap. Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of a RAID systems cost. The rest goes for...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 31, 2009 | Future Tech, Information Management, Marketing |
With the release of Snow Leopard it is now official: no ZFS – anywhere – in Mac OS 10.6. Given that Apple went to the trouble of announcing it last year as part of Snow Leopard Server this is quite a reversal. The question is why? Many theories I wrote...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 6, 2009 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Last week RisingTide Systems, a stealth startup with no web site, spoke to StorageMojo. This week Avere Systems, a quiet but not stealthy startup with a website wouldn’t. Rebecca Thompson, Avere’s marketing veep, wrote Hi, Robin. Thanks for the interest,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 30, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Management |
Check out their homepage and, as of today, “This page is not here yet….” That recursive mindbender is an apt introduction. Who – and what – is RisingTide Systems? StorageMojo spoke to founder Marc Fleischman to find out. The StorageMojo...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 29, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
As the economics of data storage push more and more data onto disks, the energy efficiency of data storage is ever more critical. Storage is anti-entropic, so keeping bits organized requires energy. How can we minimize that energy input? Data cooling is the major...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
Jeff Darcy has a good post on key data stores, like Amazon’s Dynamo, and how they differ from filesystems and databases. He relates his transition from a filesystem purist to a more flexible perspective. The thing that really changed my mind about this was an...
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