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Open source storage array

Most business files are only opened a few times, yet remain valuable enough to keep on line, just in case. That cold data is normally stored on high-performance, high-price NAS boxes at $$/GB. Why? 2...

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The per-slot cost metric

Commenters on the last post – Open source storage array – helped crystallize an idea that’s been lurking for years: comparing disk storage hardware on per-slot price. The Backblaze box, which costs...

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Beta hunt: Java Platform as a Service

Running – or planning to run – some bigtime Java apps? A Silicon Valley startup named Cumulogic is looking for a few good beta testers to help them wring out their Java Paas. Their ideal tester can use...

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Storage @VMworld 2011

VMworld is the best storage show I’ve seen in years. VMware’s severe storage problems leave users hungry for solutions – and your friendly neighborhood storage industry is happy to oblige. It’s almost...

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The network is choking our storage

Amazon Web Services architect James Hamilton has been posting on network issues for over a year and researching them much longer. As Ethernet becomes the de facto SAN technology, his views become more...

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Cleversafe: massive storage, massive patents

Spoke to Chris Gladwin, founder and CEO of Cleversafe at NAB 2012. Cleversafe had stopped communicating a few years ago – usually a bad sign – so an update was long overdue. When last heard from,...

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The post-RAID era begins

The post-RAID (noRAID) era has begun. While RAID arrays aren’t going away, the growth is elsewhere, and corporate investment follows growth. Why now? There are now architecturally superior alternatives...

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More efficient erasure coding in Windows Azure storage

Storage is cheap and getting cheaper. But at scale it will never be free. At scale – today, petabytes; in a decade, dozenss of petabytes – even a few per cent savings amounts to real dollars....

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DRAM errors soft and hard

Research (see Nightmare on DIMM street) a few years ago found that DRAM error rates were hundreds to thousands of times higher than vendors had led us believe. But what is the nature of those errors?...

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Coolest new product @SNW-Europe: Silent Cubes

Walking the floor of the SNW-Europe expo mostly meant seeing companies and products already familiar in the US. But there was one surprising exception: Fast LTA. The LTA stands for Long Term Archiving....

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Big Data in Formula 1 racing

All the talk about Big Data tends to devolve to media & entertainment, biotech, streaming web data and geophysical. But Big Data is arriving in places we don’t often consider. Such as Formula 1...

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Cloud Expo up next

The top analysts at StorageMojo packing up their saddlebags for the long ride to the International Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California this week. I’ll be moderating a panel discussion Tuesday at...

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Big Data and object storage: lessons learned

I’ve had the pleasure of moderating a half-dozen panel discussions on Big Data and object storage in the last few months. It’s been a learning experience. Big Data has always been as big as we could...

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2013: Year of the slog

There are years where new ideas and concepts explode. And there are years of consolidation. 2013 will be the latter. The storage industry has a lot to digest. Here are some of the issues. ReRAM...

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The stovepipe vs the grid

Hewlett-Packard made a major announcement in December: their grid-based StoreServ 7000 based on 3PAR software. 3PAR has been selling enterprise-class storage for almost a decade and HP is building on...

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Why virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose

I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender...

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Fronting NAS for fun and profit

The traditional model of NAS filers is handy if you only have a few. But once you get to 8 or 10 NAs filers your life gets complicated. Your oldest data is on the oldest filer and your active data is...

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EMC and the 7 dwarves – part 1

EMC has been gaining marketshare over the last several years. The world’s largest data storage company is getting larger. Why? IBM and the 7 dwarves Back when mainframes ruled the earth, IBM faced a...

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EMC and the 7 dwarves – pt 2

Note: This post got so long it needed to be posted in 2 parts. Part 1 is here. And while I promised this 2nd part “tomorrow” the editing took much longer than expected. End note. HP has made the most...

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Cloud money: flip a Bitcoin

Digital coinage can’t do everything a physical coin can do, but that’s not stopping people from signing up – or going to conferences. There’s one in Silicon Valley next week and the elite StorageMojo...

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