Category Archives: Data availability

OCZ’s latest Z-Drive R4 series PCIe SSD

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Ray

OCZ just released a new version of their enterprise class Z-drive SSD storage with pretty impressive performance numbers (up to 500K IOPS [probably read] with 2.8GB/sec read data transfer). Bootability These new drives are bootable SCSI devices and connect directly to … 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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Potential data loss using SSD RAID groups

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Ray

The problem with SSDs is that they typically all fail at some level of data writes, called the write endurance specification. As such, if you purchase multiple drives from the same vendor and put them in a RAID group, sometimes … 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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Personal medical record archive

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Ray

I was reading a book the other day and it suggested that sometime in the near future we will all have a personal medical record archive. Such an archive would be a formal record of every visit to a healthcare … Continue reading →

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The problems with digital audio archives

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Ray

A recent article in Rolling Stone (File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis) laments the fact that digital recordings can go out of service due to format changes, plugin changes, and/or files not being readable (file not found). … Continue reading →

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Atmos GeoProtect vs RAID

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, twitterland was buzzing about EMC’s latest enhancement to their Atmos Cloud Storage platform called GeoProtect.  This new capability improves cloud data protection by supporting erasure code data protection rather than just pure object replication. Erasure coding has been used … Continue reading →

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