by Robin Harris | Friday, May 19, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Except Storage Vendors It’s time to break the back of the storage oligopoly. Rip the still-beating heart out of this proprietary industry, drop it in a blender and hit “puree”. We have the weapons. History is on our side. Now is the time. Here is the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
In yesterday’s post I ran through a quick (really, it was!) overview of the Google File System’s organization and storage-related features such as RAID and high-availability. I want to offer a little more data about the performance of GFS before offering...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
GFS: Fundamental Paradigm Shift or One-off Oddity? As regular readers know, I believe that the current model of enterprise storage is badly broken. When I see something that blows that model away I like to learn more. In particular, I assess the marketability of the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 9, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Pre-Announcement Analysis Sun is building, some might say finally building, its first complete storage system, Project Honeycomb, which they previewed at a Sun event last week. Researching further I found that Sun and others have dribbled out much more information on...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 2, 2006 | NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Hey, the way gas prices are going up and NAS prices are coming down, this isn’t as far-fetched as you might think. Gartner Dataquest notes that the smallest segment of the NAS market, systems that cost less than $500, has exploded over the past two years, and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 27, 2006 | Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
PC World’s review of 1TB disk boxes makes some important points. “With every drive we tested, we found setup easy and straightforward. The biggest differences in setup involved the connection interface and the drive configuration options (for features like...
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