Can Enterprise IT Adapt? Sure, But Why Start Now?
Reader Robert Pearson made an interesting comment that I wanted to respond to at greater length. Responding to the recent Architecting the Internet Data Center series, he wrote about the problem of the Enterprise Data Center (EDC): But finally, I have to ask whether...
Architecting the Internet Data Center: The Complete Series
Looking at the "Rules of Thumb of Data Engineering" we find that Internet Data Centers have tended to hew closer to the Rules than Enterprise Data Centers. What are the Rules? What are the implications for EDCs? Can IT matter? The exponential changes in the underlying...
New Clustered NAS Head From Crosswalk
Spent an hour talking to Mark Stratton, a VP of startup Crosswalk, about their new product, the iGrid 5100 Intelligent Storage Grid series. So what is an iGrid and why should you care? Initially, Crosswalk is aiming at the HPC market, yet longer term they have designs...
Architecting the Internet Data Center: Pt IV
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. IDC-scale Storage Management We've seen how IDC storage practices follow the dynamics outlined by Gray and Shenoy. Yet one of the most interesting questions to practitioners has to be storage management. Yes, huge disk...
Happy Birthday, Rotating Rust!
Ok, I'm early, but this is a big birthday. Steven Levy, one of the best tech journalists in the business, notes in Newsweek that September 13, 2006 will mark the 50th anniversary of the first disk drive ever shipped, the IBM RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting...
Architecting The Internet Data Center: Pt III
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Update: A major power problem at the building where Dreamhost and many other hosting and network firms are colocated kept StorageMojo.com down for several hours Friday. As luck would have it, the failure occurred just...
Architecting The Internet Data Center: Pt II
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Storage Cost and Implementation The Internet Data Center (IDC) is architected very differently from an Enterprise Data Center (EDC). In an EDC, RAID arrays are used to hide the disk's physical limitations. In the IDC...
Architecting Internet Data Centers – Pt. I
Update: Read the entire article on one page here. Introduction: Internet Scale vs Enterprise Scale The rise of the Internet Data Center (IDC), such as Amazon, Google and Yahoo, in the last 10 years is perhaps the fastest and most radical transformation in information...
Open Source FreeNAS Project
The Storage Forum provides a brief review of the open source FreeNAS project. FreeNAS is a small (less than 16MB) operating system based on FreeBSD 6 that provides free Network-Attached Storage services: CIFS, FTP and NFS. The money quote: Testing I did in my lab with...
Financial Woes In “Digital Data”
Update: Three Brocade Execs Face SEC Charges - Greg Reyes Has Also Been Indicted For Fraud See the SEC complaint here (Wall Street Journal Online subscription may be required). No, Not Another Rant About Pricing Today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required)...
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