by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Ian Sefferman is a founder of Openomy.com, a novel and compelling online storage provider with over 20,000 users. Only it isn’t just online storage. It is an online file system with open API’s so custom applications can be built upon it, just as they are...
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 | Friday, June 2, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Storage Pie In The Sky Storage, the least sexy member of the Iron Triangle of infrastructure, is getting more buzz — and the right kind of buzz. At the Wall St. Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, Bill Gates stated that Microsoft is working on a...
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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 25, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
No doubt panicking after StorageMojo.com’s devastating analysis of their uncompetitive IT infrastructure costs [note to JWT: irony alert], Yahoo and Ebay announced a multi-year strategic alliance designed to ward off Google. The synergies are real. And ignore...
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