by Robin Harris | Friday, June 21, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, Information Management |
We want our data protected from device failures. When there is a failure we want to get our data back quickly. And we want to pay as little as possible for the protection and the restore. How? Recent research by hyper-scale system managers – mostly Microsoft and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 20, 2013 | Information Management, Virtualization |
The convoluted path of OS X ZFS is taking another turn. Greenbytes, who bought Zevo from Tens Complement, will be transitioning the Mac ZFS product – Zevo – out of their company sometime this summer. Where? That’s the question. Can Zevo be part of a...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 18, 2013 | Backup, Future Tech, Information Management |
No CES for me this year, but did attend Storage Visions 2013. Some cool stuff there. Panasonic’s Blu-ray RAID archive robot Panasonic has a Blu-ray-based storage system that looks interesting. Imagine 12 Blu-ray discs in the striped RAID configuration. The RAID...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 2, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise, Information Management, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
There are years where new ideas and concepts explode. And there are years of consolidation. 2013 will be the latter. The storage industry has a lot to digest. Here are some of the issues. ReRAM Would-be vendors of the enterprise NAND flash replacement technology,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Information Management |
I’ve had the pleasure of moderating a half-dozen panel discussions on Big Data and object storage in the last few months. It’s been a learning experience. Big Data has always been as big as we could afford, be it block, file or object. Google’s...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 2, 2012 | Cloud computing & storage, Information Management |
All the talk about Big Data tends to devolve to media & entertainment, biotech, streaming web data and geophysical. But Big Data is arriving in places we don’t often consider. Such as Formula 1 racing, the rest-of-the-world’s NASCAR, where racing team...
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