Corporate police state: Cisco edition
Wild. Cisco, with the aid of pliable government officials - do corporations know any other kind? - had a guy arrested and held in jail for 28 days in Vancouver, BC. He was arrested as he testified at a special hearing for the case! Cuff 'em, Danno According to the...
Webinar Q&A: flash SSD performance & reliability
I was surprised by the number of questions at last week's webinar - many more than we could get to - so I'm answering a few here. Performance Q: Can Robin talk about performance and how does flash help solve I/O bottleneck? NAND flash is very good at random reads, and...
StorageMojo webinar Thursday
A new media adventure StorageMojo is decamping to Silicon Valley tomorrow. On Thursday I'll be doing my first webinar - ever - with Dan Leary of Nimble Storage on the topic Not Just a Flash in the Pan: Proven Strategies for Successful SSD Deployment in the Midsize...
Flash and the re-architecting of storage
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 changes the...
Iron Mountain punts digital storage
Iron Mountain plans to either sell or shutter its digital archiving, eDiscovery and online backup and recovery solutions. Why? Investors driving management IM has been under pressure from a couple of funds that invested in the company and want board representation....
All de-dup works
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...
Amazon’s EBS outage
Amazon's outage was caused by a failure of the underlying storage - the Elastic Block Storage. Here's what they learned. EBS The Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a distributed and replicated storage optimized for consistent and low latency I/O from EC2 instances. EBS runs...
Google’s Megastore
Megastore handles over 3 billion writes and 20 billion reads daily on almost 8 PB of primary data across many global data centers. In a paper by Jason Baker, Chris Bond, James C. Corbett, JJ Furman, Andrey Khorlin, James Larson, Jean-Michel Léon, Yawei Li, Alexander...
Flip RIP. Is UCS next?
John Chamber's epiphany - driven by a stock price swoon - that Cisco should stick to its knitting has another logical conclusion: dump the benighted Universal Computing System. But is the damage already so bad that Cisco is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't?...
Anobit’s voodoo that they do
It sounds unlikely: technology that makes MLC flash as reliable and long-lived as more expensive SLC? Right! Or even better: make 3 bit per cell flash equivalent to 2 bit MLC? What are these guys smoking? Whatever it is, I'd like to try some myself. Because it looks...
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