by Robin Harris | Monday, October 15, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
I don’t normally link and run but this is a good article on the Next Big Thing in NFS v4.1. Written by 3 NetApp engineers, Garth Goodson, Sai Susarla, and Rahul Iyer, Standardizing Storage Clusters offers a good overview of what’s new. It’s on the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
Is Parascale new or old? There were many good reader questions about Parascale’s announcement. Even though I’ve done some work for them I didn’t know the answers so I invited their CTO, Cameron Bahar, to respond. He sent me a text only email, which...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 28, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Several readers have asked Boy, do the Fusion-io guys give a good demo! Now if only they can ship a product. I like startups. People putting their heart and soul into an idea that rarely turns out as well as they hoped. As is said of 2nd marriages, the triumph of hope...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
Yay! Parascale (parallel scale) launched its beta Virtual Storage Network this week. I’ve done some consulting for them so I won’t pretend to be objective. I’m a big fan of software-based storage clusters no matter who makes them. GFS-like is more...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 24, 2007 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The tension was real The disk guys acknowledged that flash has killed the sub-1.8″ drive market. Will 1.8″ drives be next? The flash guys acknowledged that they have a huge economic problem: heavy seasonality of demand. Consumer demand drives a Q4 peak in...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 7, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Or maybe shoots self in foot NetApp announced on Wednesday that it was suing Sun for patent infringement for ZFS. Sun immediately announced it would indemnify customers against NetApp’s claims, so there is no reason for, let’s say, Apple to stop work on...
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