Big Data and object storage: lessons learned
I've had the pleasure of moderating a half-dozen panel discussions on Big Data and object storage in the last few months. It's been a learning experience. Big Data has always been as big as we could afford, be it block, file or object. Google's MapReduce, running on...
Cloud Expo up next
The top analysts at StorageMojo packing up their saddlebags for the long ride to the International Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California this week. I'll be moderating a panel discussion Tuesday at 210pm on Object Storage for Big Data Panel: Revolutionary Storage for...
Big Data in Formula 1 racing
All the talk about Big Data tends to devolve to media & entertainment, biotech, streaming web data and geophysical. But Big Data is arriving in places we don't often consider. Such as Formula 1 racing, the rest-of-the-world's NASCAR, where racing team budgets can top...
Coolest new product @SNW-Europe: Silent Cubes
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,...
Off to SNW Europe
The StorageMojo team is saddling up for the long ride from the ranch land of northern Arizona to Frankfurt for Storage Networking World Europe next week. Going to spend the weekend hanging in Ghent and Bruges - love Belgian beer! - before arriving Monday at SNW....
DRAM errors soft and hard
Research (see Nightmare on DIMM street) a few years ago found that DRAM error rates were hundreds to thousands of times higher than vendors had led us believe. But what is the nature of those errors? Are they soft errors - as is commonly believed - where a stray Alpha...
The coming crisis in disk drives
The flooding-induced disk drive drought is over, except for some channel filling, but the last year's drive vendor profitability may be the last good news they see for years. Trends are conspiring against disk drive vendors. 1st, worldwide PC sales are slowing and are...
More efficient erasure coding in Windows Azure storage
Storage is cheap and getting cheaper. But at scale it will never be free. At scale - today, petabytes; in a decade, dozenss of petabytes - even a few per cent savings amounts to real dollars. Strategies that made sense 10 years - such as triple replication - are less...
@SDC this week
The StorageMojo analyst team saddled up and left the ranges of northern Arizona for the wilds of Silicon Valley. Look for a bowlegged crew in Wrangler jeans. I will be joining the series of roundtable discussions organized by Stephen Foskett. I don't really know what...
ZFS returns to the Mac
I've been a fan of ZFS from its early days and I'm a Mac user who has experienced data corruption thanks to its antiquated HFS+ file system. Thus I'm pleased to see that Greenbytes is releasing ZFS for Mac. A post on ZDNet explains the details: Now christened the...
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