Category Archives: Data search

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 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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5 killer apps for $0.10/TB/year

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Ray

Cloud storage keeps getting more viable and I see storage pricing going down considerably over time.  All of which got me thinking what could be done with a dime per TB per year storage ($0.10/TB/yr).  Now most cloud providers charge … Continue reading →

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Google vs. National Information Exchange Model

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Ray

Wouldn’t the National information exchange be better served by deferring the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and instead implementing some sort of Google-like search of federal, state, and municipal text data records.  Most federal, state and local data resides in … Continue reading →

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5 laws of unstructured data

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Ray

All data operates under a set of laws but unstructured data suffers from these tendencies more than most of all. Although, information technology has helped us to create and manage data easier, it hasn’t done much to minimize the problems … Continue reading →

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Backup is for (E)discovery too

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Ray

There has been lot’s of talk in twitterverse and elsewhere on how “backup is used for restore and archive is for e-discovery”, but I beg to differ. If one were to take the time to review the EDRM (Electronic Discovery … Continue reading →

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7 grand challenges for the next storage century

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ray

I saw a recent IEEE Spectrum article on engineering’s grand challenges for the next century and thought something similar should be done for data storage. So this is a start: Replace magnetic storage – most predictions show that magnetic disk … Continue reading →

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