Category Archives: data access

HDS buys BlueArc

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Ray

Yesterday, HDS announced that they had closed on the purchase of BlueArc their NAS supplier for the past 5 years or so.  Many commentators mentioned that this was a logical evolution of their ongoing OEM agreement, how the timing was … Continue reading →

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M-Disc provides a 1000 year archivable DVD

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Ray

I heard about this last week but saw another notice today.  Millenniata has made what they believe to be a DVD which has a 1000 year archive life they call the M-Disc . I have written before about the lack … Continue reading →

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SATA Express combines PCIe and SATA

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Ray

SATA-IO recently announced a new specification for an PCIe and SATA-IO specification (better described in the presentation) that will provide a SATA device interface directly connected to a server’s PCIe bus. The new working specification offers either 8Gbps or 16Gbps depending … Continue reading →

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NewSQL and the curse of Old SQL database systems

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Ray

There was some twitter traffic yesterday on how Facebook was locked into using MySQL (see article here) and as such, was having to shard their MySQL database across 1000s of database partitions and memcached servers in order to keep up with … Continue reading →

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Cloud and social media data privacy rights

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Ray

There was an minor announcement yesterday, which said something to the effect that data stored in the cloud in Europe and other locations was not immune to US Patriot act access. This concern was mainly aired by one cloud provider … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld day 2

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Ray

Day 2 saw releases for new VMAX  and VPLEX capabilities hinted at yesterday in Joe’s keynote. Namely, VMAX announcements VMAX now supports Native FCoE with 10GbE support now VMAX supports directly FCoE, 10GbE iSCSI and SRDF Enhanced Federated Live Migration … Continue reading →

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SNIA CDMI plugfest for cloud storage and cloud data services

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Ray

Was invited to the SNIA tech center to witness the CDMI (Cloud Data Managament Initiative) plugfest that was going on down in Colorado Springs. It was somewhat subdued. I always imagine racks of servers, with people crawling all over them … Continue reading →

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To iPad or not to iPad – part 4

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Ray

I took the iPad to another conference last month. My experience the last time I did this (see To iPad or not to iPad – part 3) made me much more leary, but I was reluctant to lug the laptop … Continue reading →

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