It’s that time of year again when everyone needs an updated calendar. And so, for your enjoyment and pleasure, I present the 2009 EMC Information Calendar widget, chronicling important milestones in the history of Information Storage. …
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1.036: emc information calendar for 2009
http://thestorageanarchist.typepad.com/weblog/2009/01/1036-emc-information-calendar-for-2009.html1.035: enterprise flash drives get wired!
http://thestorageanarchist.typepad.com/weblog/2008/12/1035-enterprise-flash-drives-get-wired.htmlDespite the fact that the Right Honorable Martin Glassborow (aka Storagebod) doesn't think EMC's first-to-market enterprise-ready flash drives are all that innovative, the folks over at Wired Magazine have included flash storage as one of their Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008. …
1.034: i've been working on the (redacted)
http://thestorageanarchist.typepad.com/weblog/2008/12/1034-ive-been-working-on-the-redacted.htmlAs the end of the year draws near, I realize I've not offered any explanation for my recent rather lengthy spells of silence here on my blog. The thing is, I've been busy, working on several rather exciting projects that quite honestly have been consuming nearly all my waking hours. …
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EMC Makes Iomega Relevant Again
http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/01/07/emc-iomega-relevant/NAS operating system with RAID, Retrospect backup, integrated media services (compatible with iTunes, Xbox, Wii, and UPnP), print services, and unusual features like Picture Transfer Protocol, Bluetooth, and Axis surveillance storage. It’s a great combination of home features, and Iomega quickly launched a product including this software: the StorCenter ix2. Although Iomega had used the StorCenter brand name for years on a variety of NAS devices, the ix2 was the first to use EMC
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Atmos
http://craigrandall.net/archives/2008/11/atmos/continues in a follow-up post by delving into more details concerning the “special sauce” of Atmos (i.e. its use of global policies). I have the strong sense that more posts will come from Steve regarding Atmos in the not too distant future, too. Barry Burke: “Atmos seeks to blaze a new approach to “cloud” storage (oh how I hate that term), to create a global storage platform that is not only cost-effective to install and grow, but extremely efficient to operate as well
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Devang's DataStorage Blog
http://www.datastoragewiki.comStorage Anarchist (EMC)
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Data Center Conference in Las Vegas
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemSto...Storage Anarchist
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Storage vendors debate Flash as cache
http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/11/20/storage-vendo...If you have a very large amount of data, and you can’t accommodate it entirely in [DRAM] cache, flash offers much higher capacities,” Rogers says. EMC’s Barry Burke responded about a week later with a post on his blog, The Storage Anarchist, asking some detailed questions about Flash as cache. To wit: What read hit ratios and repetitive reads of a block are required to overcome the NAND write penalty? How will accelerated cell wear-out be avoided for NAND-based caches?
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Anarchist's Incredible Journey
http://www.storagerap.com/2008/11/anarchists-incredible-jour...Yes, its long, but well worth the time. Nobody (and I mean NOBODY!) writes like the Storage Anarchist. His recent travelogue/storage blog
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Obligatory Atmos Post
http://storagearchitect.blogspot.com/2008/11/obligatory-atmo...move all the inactive data to specific spindles to spin them down - that means putting the active data on a smaller number of spindles - impacting performance and redundancy in the case of a disk failure. The way in which Atmos does its data layout is something you should know - because if Barry is right, then his XIV issue could equally apply to Atmos too. So to summarise, there's nothing radical in the hardware at all. It's all commodity-type hardware - just big quantities of storage. Obviously this is by design and
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My Thoughts...
http://www.mrunalg.com1.028: benchmarketing. badly.
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