Category Archives: Data grid

Shared DAS

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Ray

An announcement this week by VMware on their vSphere  5 Virtual Storage Appliance has brought back the concept of shared DAS (see vSphere 5 storage announcements). Over the years, there have been a few products, such as Seanodes and Condor Storage … Continue reading →

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Hadoop – part 1

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Ray

BIGData is creating quite a storm around IT these days and at the bottom of big data is an Apache open source project called Hadoop. In addition, over the last month or so at least three large storage vendors have … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld day 3 …

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Ray

Sometime this week EMC announced a new generation of Isilon NearLine storage which now includes HGST 3TB SATA disk drives.  With the new capacity the multi-node (144) Isilon cluster using the 108NL nodes can support 15PB of file data in … Continue reading →

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15PB a year created by CERN

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Ray

That’s what CERN produces from their 6 experiments each year.  How this data is subsequently accessed and replicated around the world is an interesting tale in multi-tier data grids. When an experiment is run at CERN, the data is captured … Continue reading →

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