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OpenZFS 2.0 exciting new future
The OpenZFS (virtual) Developer Summit ended over a weekend ago. I stayed up a bit (not much) to listen to some of the talks because it started midnight my time, and ran till 5am on the first day, and...
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Do we still need FAST (and its cohorts)?
In a recent conversation with an iXsystems reseller in Hong Kong, the topic of Storage Tiering was brought up. We went about our banter and I brought up the inter-array tiering and the intra-array...
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RAIDZ expansion and dRAID excellent OpenZFS adventure
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is the foundation of almost every enterprise storage array in existence. Thus a technology change to a RAID implementation is a big deal. In recent weeks, we...
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Don’t go to the Clouds. Come back!
Almost in tandem last week, Nutanix and HPE appeared to have made denigrated comments about Cloud First mandates of many organizations today. Nutanix took to the annual .NEXT conference to send the...
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What happened to NDMP?
The acronym NDMP shows up once in a while in NAS (Network Attached Storage) upgrade tenders. And for the less informed, NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) was one of the early NAS data management...
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Right time for Andrew. The Filesystem that is.
I couldn’t hold my excitement when I discovered Auristor® early last week. I stumbled upon this Computerweekly article “Want to side step Public Cloud? Auristor® offers global file storage.” Given the...
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At the mercy of the cloud deity
Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down in the middle of last week. News of the outage were mentioned: Amazon Web Services (AWS) causes chaos AWS us-east-1 outage brings down services around the world Dead...
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Celebrating MinIO
“Essentially MinIO is a web server …“ I vaguely recalled Anand Babu Periasamy (AB as he is known), the CEO of MinIO saying that when I first met him in 2017. I was fresh “playing around” with MinIO and...
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Object Storage becoming storage lingua franca of Edge-Core-Cloud
Data Fabric was a big buzzword going back several years. I wrote a piece talking about Data Fabric, mostly NetApp®’s, almost 7 years ago, which I titled “The Transcendence of Data Fabric“. Regardless...
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Project COSI
The S3 (Simple Storage Service) has become a de facto standard for accessing object storage. Many vendors claim 100% compatibility to S3, but from what I know, several file storage services integration...
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