Category Archives: Data Center
Sun Microsystems’ new storage arrays (F5100 Flash Array)
Sun Microsystems has unveiled new integrated Flash arrays, promising to increase database performance by up to 10 times while reducing operating costs. The company describes the Storage F5100 Flash Array as a “significant leap forward in the industry”, claiming to … Continue reading
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
This setup need lots of inexpensive but reliable storage space. Check out this “open source” engineering: https://www.backblaze.com/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage.html Touted by ZDNet saying, “Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of an enterprise RAID system’s cost. The rest goes for corporate jets, sales … Continue reading
iXsystems unveils new line of ‘Earth’ series servers
iXsystems has unveiled the iX-Green Neutron, a new line in the ‘Earth’ series of environmentally friendly servers. The announcement is made at OpenSource World, Next Generation Data Center, and CloudWorld 2009 events. iXsystems customers asked for an ultra-efficient green solution … Continue reading
Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch for IBM BladeCenter
Voltaire Ltd announced the availability of the Voltaire 40 Gb/s (gigabits-per-second) InfiniBand switch module for IBM BladeCenter. Custom designed by Voltaire for IBM, the new switch delivers 100 percent faster InfiniBand connectivity to accelerate performance of applications running on BladeCenter … Continue reading
Storage Consolidation for Data Center Efficiency
blade.org has a useful white paper on storage consolidation: Executive Summary Economic factors are driving a number of advances in the data center in order to reduce cost and increase overall efficiency. Server virtualization and network consolidation are enabling increases … Continue reading
Traditional SAN and NAS vs Cloud Storage
The current crop of cloud storage solutions have many important differences from traditional SAN and NAS storage. This post by Nirvanix explains the difference between SAN-NAS storage and cloud storage, by first setting out what traditional storage is: “Most IT … Continue reading
Clustered NAS specialist IBRIX purchased by HP
HP has announced hat it has finalised a deal to acquire file server specialist IBRIX and its parallelised, scale-out file-serving software for an undisclosed amount. Privately-held IBRIX is a competitor in the clustered NAS space alongside Exanet, Isilon, NetApp, with … Continue reading
Clustered File Systems
Many options exist for setting up clustered and highly available storage, but figuring out what each does will take a bit of research. Your choice of storage architecture as well as file system is crucial, as most have severe limitations … Continue reading
Ten signs you need a SAN (storage-area-network)
Storage area networks (SANs) are just about essential to large enterprises and they’re becoming increasingly popular in SMBs. In spite of their cost and complexity, a lot of SMBs are finding SANs make sense for their storage needs. But a … Continue reading
Build a file server using OpenSolaris, iSCSI, ZFS and StorageTek AVS
I2admin.com has a really interesting article describing how they set up a webserver farm using OpenSolaris, iSCSI, ZFS and StorageTek. All you need is: 2 servers for the file servers. A dedicated gig switch. 2 iSCSI chassis. A spare gig … Continue reading
