Category Archives: Storage

Deep Dive on VMware vCloud by Orran Krieger

April 26, 2009 – 13:51

Discovered, by happenstance, an interesting presentation by VMware’s Orran Krieger on vCloud.  Really great information in here about VMware’s perspective on cloud computing, their cloud trajectory, and the vCloud architecture.  This looks like a recent undiscovered gem for folks trying to understand VMware and their cloud computing plans.  It was only recently given by Orran [...]

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Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?

April 13, 2009 – 10:54

As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate.  Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else.  Some consider “cloud computing” to encompass infrastructure only.  Others use “Infrastructure-as-a-service” (IaaS) or even “Hardware-as-a-Service” (HaaS) to define that part [...]

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Challenges for Cloud Storage

January 21, 2009 – 18:08

I had a great time presenting on the challenges for cloud storage today at the SNIA Winter Symposium ‘09 event. It was my first GoGrid-related presentation and it went very well. A very technical audience though, so there is actually quite a bit of content that was given orally in addition to what [...]

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MySQL and ZFS Hitting the Big Leagues

December 24, 2008 – 03:16

Another outstanding writeup from Don MacAskill on MySQL performance improvements, including some notes on using the new Sun Unified Storage Appliances (aka ‘Amber Road’). I’m glad Don is sharing his crib notes as I’ve been unable to work on my own tests of MySQL+ZFS due to time constraints.
This is a no-brainer folks. ZFS [...]

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ZFS to go GPL?

December 6, 2008 – 21:11

Word on the street is that Sun is exploring the option of going GPL at the CEO level. They have been chatting with customer council(s) about whether they should do this.
The answer is simple: Do it. Do it now.
ZFS has inspired many. There are a number of up and coming new [...]

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