Nightmare on DIMM street
A 2½ year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. Another piece of hallowed Conventional Wisdom bites the dust. Google and...
StorageMojo@SNW next week
Finally, SNW is back in Phoenix, an easy 2 hour drive from the mountains of northern Arizona. I'm looking to meet with as many companies as possible, as well as touring the show floor, shooting some video and maybe - maybe - doing some podcasts. It looks like several...
Hot data, smart cache
Okay, we’ve figured out how to produce protected storage for $100 a terabyte . It has wide fan out so the bandwidth is modest. It uses large SATA disks so it isn’t great from an IOPS perspective either. But it works. What would it take to turn it into something...
HP’s unified storage/compute strategy
HP’s Tech Days this week in Colorado Springs impressed on two levels. First, their willingness to engage with the analysts and writers tagged with the disreputable term “blogger.†Second, the quality of the strategy they outlined for a unified computing and...
The Cloud Quadrant
Thinking about cloud Amid the hype and glitz on cloud storage and computing it can be difficult to separate the essential from the transitory. The word scale is abused; APIs are debated; business models are in flux: and new varieties of cloud infrastructure are being...
StorageMojo off to HP’s Storage Tech Day
A re-education camp for bloggers. If I start gushing on HP, slap me. Starts tomorrow in Colorado Springs. I've heard they're flying in bloggers from Europe, which may lend tone to the event. Can you spell "virtualization?" The agenda includes Enterprise storage...
MaxiScale’s Web-scale file system
A new web scale - they claim linear scaling to 50,000 nodes -- filesystem from MaxiScale has some interesting wrinkles. Wrinkle #1 - like several of the largest Web scale filesystems MaxiScale does not use RAID. Instead, it replicates files among peer sets, a group of...
Bringing cloud to the masses – of service providers
If cloud computing or cloud storage is a gold rush, hosting providers are a rich vein. I attended the Tier1's Hosting Transformation Summit this week to learn more about them. The short answer: hosting companies are at least as confused about cloud infrastructure as...
RDBMS: going the way of the mainframe?
High-end big iron storage arrays have long owned the transaction processing market. The big relational database systems need all the I/O and availability you can give them. But what if we didn't need big relational databases? What then? RDBMS - RIP? On his ACM blog,...
Happy 5th: 5 years of storage blogging
5 years: that's as long as a Seagate warranty! I started blogging about storage before I started StorageMojo. No one read the posts and I had no idea how to change that, so the posts got less frequent and finally dribbled to a stop. Less than a year later I started...
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