More On Cnet’s Haystack Storage
As promised, Martin Green has provided more info on Cnet's Haystack storage system. Hardly a word about the software, which is where the magic is, but this quote should give the big iron vendors a little shiver. BSU Haystack consists of many Basic Storage Units (BSU),...
Openomy.com – Not Just Storage, An Online File System
Ian Sefferman is a founder of Openomy.com, a novel and compelling online storage provider with over 20,000 users. Only it isn't just online storage. It is an online file system with open API's so custom applications can be built upon it, just as they are with standard...
Cleversafe: Yet Another Online Storage Startup
The redoubtable Ben Rockwood pointed to a YAOSS I hadn't heard of: Cleversafe. Their Big Idea: take data and split it across many data centers with: Disaster tolerance - like losing 5 out of 11 data centers - and still accessing the total data set Security - data is...
Online Storage Stays Offline In The Market
With Google and Microsoft talking about free storage online, maybe it really will take off. But what are our options today? You can start with this comparison chart. The focus here is internet accessible storage -- not backup software that puts backups on the...
Go Long On Storage
Maybe online photo storage will be the next killer app for massive storage systems. But the excellent Good Morning Silicon Valley blog suggests that the US Government's desire for 7x24 surveillance of its citizens could be The One. Here's a rare bit of GMSV investment...
Petabytes In The Sky With Diamonds
Storage Pie In The Sky Storage, the least sexy member of the Iron Triangle of infrastructure, is getting more buzz -- and the right kind of buzz. At the Wall St. Journal's D: All Things Digital conference, Bill Gates stated that Microsoft is working on a variety of...
Capitalism and Morality
Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo, has been taking a beating in the blogosphere because Yahoo has helped the Chinese government nab dissidents. People are acting surprised that large multi-national corporations are aiding authoritarian governments. Get real, folks. I'm a...
ZFS: Threat or Menace? Pt. II
Part I discussed performance and and some data integrity features of ZFS. Now for some more cool features and the StorageMojo.com conclusion. Physician, Heal Thyself On-disk bit rot is a real and continuing problem. For a lot of reasons, data can go wrong. The...
The Latest Security Drill
I had dinner the other night with a pretty blond bank IT Vice-President. As the crystalline high desert skies above progressed from bright blue to velvet black, she shared with me some of her deepest longings -- about her vendors. For security reasons, the bank no...
Time For Google Layoffs – Starting With Eric
In a recent column Tom Foremski ponders The limits of Google's limitless business model. He compares Google to Microsoft for its penchant of entering markets with, evidently, no intention of monetizing them, thus sqeezing out competitors. Google, You're No Microsoft...
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