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Isilon one million, the fastest Scale Out NAS

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

-140 Isilon S200 Nodes. -One Volume. -One File System. -One Million+ IOPS for the SPECsfs 2008 CIFS and SPECsfs 2008 NFS Benchmarks. But first a proof point. Unlike many of it’s competitors Isilon aggregates system resources in every node to …

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Posted in Datacenters, Hardware, Opinion, Storage, Virtualization

High Performing for Big Data

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

The newly acquired Isilon products from EMC have revved up their ranges by adding new systems offering as much as twice the file throughout for top-end S200 systems.  The new said systems are capable of delivering over 1.4 million NFS …

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Posted in Opinion, Storage, Transactions

Gmail and cloud computing data integrity

Posted on February 28, 2011 by admin

Chances are everyone has a Gmail account today, whether they use it or not the popularity of Gmail has gone from invitation only 10 years ago to free open registration and use today. Popularity basis of Gmail is ranked next …

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Posted in Hardware, Open Source, Servers, Software, Storage, Virtualization

Cloud and thin clients, the past is future

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Cloud – repurpose your old machine with Jolicloud 1.1, download. Recycle any computer with a useable lightweight web operating system. For those that are waiting to try out Google chrome OS, this is the product available. While there are no …

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Storage – Which is more reliable?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

In a recent article published today over at Datacenterknowledge.com analysts approached the question: Which storage drives are the most reliable, SSD (Solid-State-Drive) or Hard Drives (SATA/SAS) although there are more choices than SATA/SAS current industry is widely using what we …

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Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Servers, Software, Storage

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Nicholas O'Neil

Upgrading OS Boot Partition (C: Drive) from X (500GB) to Y (1TB). It is a true success story when a machine has reached a level of operation where its only increase in hardware is the local drive capacity.  When mentioned, …

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Seagate throws down the HAMR, enabling 100TB+ HDs

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Carter

With the current generation of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording-based drives nearing their theoretical limits in the next few years, Seagate has begun exploring the capabilities of Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), which promises to boost single HD capacity to 200 to 300 …

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Posted in Hardware, Storage, Virtualization

Brocade one-ups Cisco (by a letter) with VCS

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Carter

If I’m reading through the marketing-speak properly, Brocade is following Cisco’s UCS and Juniper’s Project Stratus and jumping into the server business with Brocade One network architecture. Brocade One seeks to transform physical data center assets and resources into virtual …

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