Tag Archives: RAID

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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Storage strategic inflection points

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Ray

Both EMC and Spectra Logic celebrated their 30 years in business this month and it got me to thinking. Both companies started the same time but one is a ~$14B revenue (’09 projected) behemoth and the other a relatively successful, … Continue reading →

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Protecting the Yottabyte archive

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Ray

In a previous post I discussed what it would take to store 1YB of data in 2015 for the National Security Agency (NSA). Due to length, that post did not discuss many other aspects of the 1YB archive such as … Continue reading →

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Are RAID's days numbered?

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Ray

A older article that I recently came across said RAID 5 would be dead in 2009 by Robin Haris StorageMojo. In essence, it said as drives get to 1TB or more the time it took to rebuild the drive required … Continue reading →

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