Tag Archives: databases

Virtual Server vs. Real Server Disk Drive Speed

December 13, 2009 – 13:09

It’s important to understand the potential differences between virtual server disk drives and physical disk drives, so I wanted to post a very brief blog on the topic.  For this article I’ve chosen to compare the performance of an iSCSI SAN on Gigabit Ethernet to a single SATA disk drive.  The reason for this is [...]

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The Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter

August 10, 2009 – 08:00

There are many sources that feed my insatiable need for cloud computing and infrastructure news.  One of these that I have been following for a while I wanted to share with my readers.  It’s the Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter from the Internet Research Group (IRG) and you can sign up here.  I’ve been following John Katsaros [...]

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Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

July 28, 2009 – 08:30

It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science.  There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up.  Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of architecture: centralized or decentralized.  In this article I’m going to briefly revisit scaling and then [...]

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Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel

June 22, 2009 – 09:15

What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases?  There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything.  Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop provide an alternative mechanism for storing and processing large sets of data that don’t necessarily [...]

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