by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Already did the outside skinny I talked to Sujal Patel, founder and CTO of Isilon, last week to learn more about Isilon. As I’d mentioned in my posts on the company I was surprised that there wasn’t more technical information about the products on their...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 | Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Geeky computer guy that I am, I have my machine instrumented with programs (Mac users: MenuMeters) that tell me all kinds of useless information. Network usage, memory usage, CPU load and, of course, disk activity. Mostly all this stuff just tells me that the machine...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Metadata data structures The basic insight of Isilon’s cluster is that they manage files on a pool of blocks. What we know as RAID levels exist on a per file basis, not per array. Unlike Google’s GFS, which only does file replication, Isilon does file...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 22, 2007 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
With the IPO completed, interest in Isilon among StorageMojo readers has been growing. So I thought I’d take a gander at their pricing and see how it stacks up. I’m fast tracking this project – doing the writing and analysis concurrently – so...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 11, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
Brocade announced it is buying Silverback Systems, makers of a low-cost IP accelerator chip Silverback has been getting some traction, as I learned when I had dinner with a couple of Silverback worthies at SNW. My pity turned to respect When I agreed to meet with...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
“There is not a lot of added value in commodity ‘storage bricks’” Commented one feisty StorageMojo.com reader last week. I didn’t agree, but I didn’t have a ready answer, either. But now I do: Rackable Systems. You may have heard of...
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