by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Information Management |
Walking the floor of the SNW-Europe expo mostly meant seeing companies and products already familiar in the US. But there was one surprising exception: Fast LTA. The LTA stands for Long Term Archiving. FAST LTA AG, based in Munich, is headed by founder Matthias Zahn,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 9, 2012 | Enterprise, Information Management |
The friendly folks at Panasas are sponsoring Taming the Big Data Beast: Big Data for Design and Discovery at 10am PDT. I’ll present the StorageMojo take on big data. I’d like to hear from you on any issues I should address. Feel free to comment or email me...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, SOHO/SMB, Video |
I sat down with Nimble Storage co-founder and VP of engineering Varun Mehta to discuss their architecture – and shoot some video. Varun has been part of several Valley success stories – NetApp, Sun, Data Domain – and has a first hand perspective on...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Megastore handles over 3 billion writes and 20 billion reads daily on almost 8 PB of primary data across many global data centers. In a paper by Jason Baker, Chris Bond, James C. Corbett, JJ Furman, Andrey Khorlin, James Larson, Jean-Michel Léon, Yawei Li, Alexander...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 24, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Talked to a company last week whose cloud app handles several billion transactions per month on a cluster. Sounds like SSDs could help them but how? In a paper from the latest 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR ’11) researchers...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | Future Tech, Information Management |
The official best paper winner at FAST ’10 isn’t one of the several I excerpted. I’m listening to the presentation as I write – trying live blogging – while following a fast talking presenter. The winning paper is quFiles: The right file...
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