Tag Archives: Scale out NAS

Latest SPECsfs2008 results, over 1 million NFS ops/sec – chart-of-the-month

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Ray

[We are still catching up on our charts for the past quarter but this one brings us up to date through last month] There’s just something about a million SPECsfs2008(r) NFS throughput operations per second that kind of excites me (weird, … Continue reading →

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IBM’s 120PB storage system

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Ray

Talk about big data, Technology Review reported this week that IBM is building a 120PB storage system for some unnamed customer.  Details are sketchy and I cannot seem to find any announcement of this on IBM.com. Hardware It appears that … Continue reading →

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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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EMC to buy Isilon Systems

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Ray

I understand the rationale behind EMC’s purchase of Isilon scale out NAS technology for big data applications.  More and more data is being created every day and most of that unstructured.  How can one begin to support multiple PBs of … Continue reading →

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IBM Scale out NAS (SONAS) v1.1.1

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Ray

We have discussed other scale out NAS products on the market such as Symantec’s FileStore, IBRIX reborn as HP networked storage, and why SO/CFS, why now (scale out/cluster file systems) in previous posts but haven’t talked about IBM’s highend scale out NAS (SONAS) … Continue reading →

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