enterprise storage

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Houston we have a file system scaling problem."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "The open source Lustre technology is a parallel file system that is often found in high performance computing (HPC) environments.

Users of the file system will soon get community Lustre distribution, thanks to the leadership of startup Whamcloud."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Scale-out storage startup Gluster today released version 3.1 of its Gluster Storage Platform with dynamic provisioning features that let administrators grow, shrink and migrate storage volumes in virtual environments."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Tuning RAID controllers is not as difficult as some vendors would have you believe; there's no need for professional services to get the job done."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "I had to think long and hard for reasons why sites would not use both tape types, and I came up with two reasons: library support for enterprise tape drives, and a lack of standards for enterprise tape."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Choosing the right solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise storage networking environment is a critical decision — and equally critical is making sure you have the right controller to get the most out of the pricey drives."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "The Samba-based systems include management nodes, switches, interface nodes, data storage nodes, RAID controllers and expansion units, and offer snapshot capabilities, tiered storage and HSM through Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Flashed-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming a big issue for enterprise storage users; a number of customers I work with are planning for this new "tier 0" data storage for a number of reasons.

It could be as simple as IOPS per watt, IOPS per dollar, or for some applications, bandwidth per GB/sec of storage."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "As I wrote a year ago, the data storage market was going to be tough to predict this year because of the economy, and indeed, the economy did hold back some technological advances that might otherwise have occurred this year."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "I was at a preservation archive workshop hosted by a U.S. government agency recently — these are installations that must preserve information in a digital format forever — when it occurred to me that files need to be much better protected to make these kind of archives a reality."