Deviant Abstraction

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.

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.

As you may know, I have started working on my master’s thesis for my company. Thanks to this enlightened company, the produced software will be open source.

If you care to know what this thesis is all about, here is a quick document about the system I am designing and building. I am waiting for your feedback.

This document is highly unscientific and quite general but might allow you to understand better what I am writing and why I like it.

I will update regularly this blog on the status and deliverables of my thesis, so stay tuned… Even better fetch my RSS feed.

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