Archive for the 'storage' Category

ZFS: Next Generation Storage

Friday, October 19th, 2007

This is a really good interview from two key people from ZFS.

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The Rise Of Open Source Storage Software

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Commodity based open source storage software à la Red Hat GFS is it seems the next big wave. One of the reason is web companies use a lot of storage and cannot afford expensive NetApp or EMC hardware. They are also too small to create their own Distributed/clustered filesystems.

Solutions: open source with support as MySQL did it.

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This is a quick win, since it is not particularly hard compared to the guaranteed lucrative market position, a company would gain. I guess VC are not interested in this market, as they were not in MySQL at their start.

In the meantime, Amazon S3 is gaining a lot of advance since its competitor are non existant yet.

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