While Amazon Simple Storage Service has gotten quite a bit of attention as a cost effective provider of on line bulk storage, Google's entry into the cloud based storage service product arena, G…
Does your data storage plan include a plan for more power? No? That may turn into the problem you didn't expect as your system grows and new equipment is added. According to a white paper publishe…
StorageMojo ยป Google's Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. I:
I know full well that I lack the background to *really* understand this sort of system, but I love the idea of it, I love readin…
the lone sysadmin: When to Cluster, When to Build Big:
When you're building a medium-large sized service there's a Fundamental choice you have to make: do you build it on one big machine or …
Open Source grids could be the answer; what's the question?
Even with the open source virtualization/grid potential there is still a lot of talk about how exactly we can leverage all that func…
Storage Grids – A Visionary Architecture for an Intelligent, Scalable, Reliable, and Agile Storage Platform:
HP present a document on Storage grids. From the abstract:
The concept of grid computin…