An Open-Source SAN
Update Over at TechRepublic, Scott Lowe offers another view of AoE here. If I were an SMB VAR, I'd be checking AoE out. It Is About Time Here's a potential game-changer - especially for the SMB market. It is low-cost SAN functionality based on local Ethernet. From a...
ZFS Performance Versus Hardware RAID
Over at Home » OpenSolaris Forums » zfs » discuss Robert Milkowski has posted some promising test results. Hard vs. Soft Possibly the longest running battle in RAID circles is which is faster, hardware RAID or software RAID. Before RAID was RAID, software disk...
Notebooks Get ‘Flashed’
Special Today: this report on last week's Flash Memory Summit is written by Steve Denegri, a long time observer and analyst of the storage scene. The snarky paragraph heads in bold are mine. Thanks, Steve! As if the hard disk drive industry didn't have enough anxiety...
Brocade Buys McData: Yawn.
From the Too-Little, Too-Late Department Eyes glazed over at the news that Brocade is buying McData. The Wall Street Journal reported (subscription required), that Brocade CEO Mike Klayko told analysts that "customers are frustrated by equipment that doesn't work...
YouTube Meet YouDupe
Should Impersonating a Human Be a Crime? Fascinating Wall Street Journal article about a YouTube video that satirizes Al Gore's global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The two-minute video is called Al Gore's Penguin Army. I haven't seen either. What is...
Skyrider: Peer-To-Peer Data Center
From Stealth To Spin Newly announced Skyrider has come out of stealth mode with a interesting spin on the current Internet Data Center (IDC) architectures used by Amazon, Google and Yahoo: the p2p IDC. A Word About P2P Peer-To-Peer (p2p) network architectures are...
Key Limits Of Apple’s Time Machine
So I'm trying to make some lemonade to go with my crow steak after mistakenly tying Time Machine to Sun's very cool ZFS. Given that Apple has incorporated Sun's DTrace into the Darwin kernal, I still have hope they will do the same with ZFS. In my optimistic view,...
Is Apple’s Time Machine Built On Sun’s ZFS?
Update: Sadly, it appears I'm wrong. See the update at the bottom of this post and the comments. It was fun while it lasted. And my congrats to the Apple Time Machine UI team still stand. Brilliant. The original post follows. Lest The Suspense Kill You: The Answer Is...
Sun’s DTrace Now On Mac OS X
Pardon me while I get my geek on. While this doesn't relate directly to storage, it does relate to everyone who develops or administers Mac OS X, one of my favorite operating systems (along with Tops-20). And it is another powerful feature that Microsoft's Vista won't...
StorageMojo.com Buys Storage
Adventures in the Byte Trade I said I was going to wait, but I wouldn't be a technophile if I did. Despite maxing out the old StorageMojo.com laptop mainframe with RAM, an 80 GB hard drive and an internal slot-loading DVD burner, the wait times grew burdensome and a...
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