by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | Architecture, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
JIm Gray’s comment that disk is the new tape is truer today than it was 8 years ago. We’ve been adding caches, striping disks, modifying applications and performing other unnatural acts to both reduce and accommodate random reads and writes to disk. Flash...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Forget the flame wars over moving window versus fixed block de-duplication. A recent paper, A Study of Practical Deduplication (pdf) from William J. Bolosky of Microsoft Research and Dutch T. Meyer of the University of British Columbia found that whole file...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
This came in over the transom from a semiconductor engineer. He’s wants home archive storage and is wondering why no one seems to sell it. I’ve been grappling with the same issue. Here’s an edited-for-length excerpt from his letter: I use RAID server...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, SOHO/SMB |
A reader writes: I found your blog after searching for storage alternatives. I have to say, its really impressive and has helped me a lot so far. I was wondering if you could offer some advice. We run an online version control service. Currently we are hosted on a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | Management, Marketing, SOHO/SMB |
I noticed this morning that co-founder Geoff Barrall is out as Data Robotics CEO. The VCs installed their own guy, who previously was head of sales and marketing at on-the-ropes Brocade. Given Geoff’s banishment from the executive team and the lack of a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | Disk, SOHO/SMB |
Geoff Barrall founded BlueArc at the high end of NAS performance. He then founded Data Robotics, maker of the Drobo low end arrays. A group of bloggers visited DR last month and a lucky few – not including me – took brand new Drobo2 units home. The idea...
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