StorageMojo@NAB 2010
StorageMojo's Global HQ will move to Las Vegas for a couple of days next month to visit NAB 2010. Since NAB is the same week as SNW in Orlando, I won't be attending SNW for the first time in years. Why? StorageMojo's focus is the future: emerging technologies, markets...
Atmos architect moves on
Patrick Eaton, the Berkeley PhD. who architected EMC's Atmos cloud storage product, left EMC about 3 months ago. He joined a Boston-area search firm, Endeca, where he is a software architect working on a team to scale Endeca's core MDEX search engine. Dr. Eaton...
StorageMojo’s best paper of FAST ’10
StorageMojo's best paper of FAST '10 is Understanding Latent Sector Errors and How to Protect Against Them (pdf) by Bianca Schroeder, Sotirios Damouras, and Phillipa Gill, University of Toronto. The paper builds on research and a dataset that StorageMojo reviewed 2...
Does RAID 6 stop working in 2019?
Late last year Sun engineer, DTrace co-inventor, flash architect and ZFS developer Adam Leventhal, analyzed RAID 6 as a viable data protection strategy. He lays it out in the Association of Computing Machinery's Queue magazine, in the article Triple-Parity RAID and...
quFiles: The right file at the right time
The official best paper winner at FAST '10 isn't one of the several I excerpted. I'm listening to the presentation as I write - trying live blogging - while following a fast talking presenter. The winning paper is quFiles: The right file at the right time by Kaushik...
FAST ’10 papers: wow.
Just checked out the papers for this year's FAST '10 in San Jose this week. They are impressive. Here are a few that caught my eye with quotes, mostly from the abstracts, but sometimes from the results. SRCMap: Energy Proportional Storage using Dynamic Consolidation...
Another optical storage system bites the dust
After 9 years and $100,000,000, holographic storage pioneer InPhase Technologies has shut down without ever shipping a product. Their office building was also seized for non-payment of back taxes. They assured me that the product would ship in May, 2008. It didn't....
Amazon Web Services: a $500 million startup
Isilon reached an important milestone this month: their first profitable quarter and an annual run rate of about $150 million a year -- in only 10 years. But what if I told you there was another Seattle-area storage company on target to do $500 million in only 5...
StorageMojo @FAST ’10 next week
The USENIX conference on File And Storage Technologies is in San Jose, Feb. 23-26. Here's the blurb: FAST '10 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage...
A petascale parallel database
MapReduce and its open source version, Hadoop, are parallel data analysis tools. A few lines of code can drive massive data reductions across thousands of nodes. Cool. Powerful though it is, Hadoop isn't a database. Classic structured data analysis of the...
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