Microsoft’s Storage Challenge
At SNW I met with Claude Lorenson, Ph.D., Group Product Manager for Windows Server Marketing. If you can decode that title and triangulate where he sits in the MS corporate huddle you are a more informed man than I. I'd met Claude several years ago when MS was just...
Power, cooling & IOPS: Will power kill the 3.5″ drive?
Are enterprise drives worth the power? Data center power consumption is getting a lot of press play lately. The issue: increased density means that a data center rack that used to need a 2kw may now need 6kw. And for every dollar spent to power equipment, another 40...
Best of Show at Storage Networking World
StorageMojo's rigorously unscientific survey My absolute favorite product - and I haven't the faintest idea whether it works or not - is the StoreWiz compression appliance. It sits in front of your big NAS box - the more expensive the better - and doubles or even,...
Microsoft’s Secret Google-killer? Boxwood Pt. IV
The StorageMojo take on Boxwood Let me get the negatives out of the way first: Boxwood is a prototype, not a product. While the BoxFS testing is suggestive, the real proof is in application, especially database, performance. An eight node prototype isn't very large....
Microsoft’s Secret Google-killer? Boxwood Pt. III
How well does it work? The paper discusses performance testing on the Boxwood prototype, a cluster of eight machines on a Gig E switch. Each machine housed a 2.4 GHz Xeon, 1 GB RAM, dual SCSI ports and 5 15k SCSI drives. Not bad for three years ago. The holy grail of...
Microsoft’s Secret Google-killer? Boxwood Pt. II
Boxwood, like Gaul, is divided into three parts Boxwood is structured as several interdependent layered services. Sounds good, but what does it mean? First, recall what we want from our ideal storage infrastructure: Fault tolerance - which means redundancy and, for...
Microsoft’s Secret Google-killer? Boxwood Pt. I
How can Microsoft's MSN compete with Google's powerful cost advantage in large scale web services? After all, Google's infrastructure is a clean sheet design, intended to be the world's most scalable Internet Data Center. And Microsoft is going to beat that with...
StorageMojo Goes To Storage Networking World
StorageMojo's global HQ is decamping to America's shrine to good clean hedonism, Orlando, Florida, for the fall SNW. Personally I like SNW since I get to see so many old friends. Yet I'm open to new friends as well. I trust that some StorageMojo readers will be there...
Build A Portable Opposable Thumb Drive
A fine article in the latest Macworld describes how to create a thumb drive loaded with portable apps - including some that work with Windows - for use on the road. It is the first I've seen how-to article that actually describes the process in sufficient detail for...
8 Open Source Storage Projects That Want You
Open source software (OSS) has had a profound effect on several software markets, such operating systems (Linux, OpenSolaris and the various BSD Uni), webservers (Apache), databases (MySQL), blogging (WordPress and others) and a number of others. The benefits to users...
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