Tag Archives: Reed-Solomon codes

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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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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