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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, Industry, Opinion

Google and residents of 111 8th ave NYC

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Google has no plans on getting rid of its existing data center and network tenants at its newly acquired 111 8th Ave. carrier hotel any time soon. In May, Google took the building’s remaining space …

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Posted in Open Source, Opinion, RDBMS, Software

Open Source, Developers and the Database

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

I will discuss the database layer and at some point in the topic what open source tools are currently in use on some of the biggest media sites today.  I myself have been a systems engineer and Microsoft Certified SQL …

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Posted in Datacenters, Opinion, Software, Virtualization

Cloud Computing mission critical apps

Posted on April 21, 2011 by admin

Sites including Quora, Reddit, Hootsuite and location tracker FourSquare have been affected by outages at Amazon’s cloud computing centers in which they rely on to provide their service.  In a recent status update on Amazon it appears these services are …

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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 Industry, Opinion, Transactions

Massive SQL Injection, Is your credit card data secured with your vendors?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

In a recent 0 day release, Ars Technica announced a Massive SQL injection attack where numbers up to 700K of URLs have been compromised thus far.  The massive scale attack has injected code that is found on a number of …

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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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Benchmarking the Cloud

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

A positive experience with cloud computing starts with the choice of the best vendor.  There are a variety of options in the industry competing to win your business. GatheringClouds is powered by Logicworks, a hosting and cloud computing company based …

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