by Robin Harris | Monday, November 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Are enterprise drives worth the power? Data center power consumption is getting a lot of press play lately. The issue: increased density means that a data center rack that used to need a 2kw may now need 6kw. And for every dollar spent to power equipment, another 40...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 1, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
How well does it work? The paper discusses performance testing on the Boxwood prototype, a cluster of eight machines on a Gig E switch. Each machine housed a 2.4 GHz Xeon, 1 GB RAM, dual SCSI ports and 5 15k SCSI drives. Not bad for three years ago. The holy grail of...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Boxwood, like Gaul, is divided into three parts Boxwood is structured as several interdependent layered services. Sounds good, but what does it mean? First, recall what we want from our ideal storage infrastructure: Fault tolerance – which means redundancy and,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 30, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
How can Microsoft’s MSN compete with Google’s powerful cost advantage in large scale web services? After all, Google’s infrastructure is a clean sheet design, intended to be the world’s most scalable Internet Data Center. And Microsoft is going...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Open source software (OSS) has had a profound effect on several software markets, such operating systems (Linux, OpenSolaris and the various BSD Uni), webservers (Apache), databases (MySQL), blogging (WordPress and others) and a number of others. The benefits to users...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 23, 2006 | Future Tech, SAN, FC, SOHO/SMB |
The good people at Texas Memory Systems read StorageMojo.com and at my invitation offered this response to my post An SSD For The Rest Of Us. I think they did a pretty good job of laying out the, IMHO, historically under-appreciated RAM SSD. Naturally I have a couple...
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