Techno Musings

For new applications I think that we are seeing, largely because of AWS, that moving away from clustered or traditional file systems makes perfect sense.  At scale companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Google, etc. are finding that new approaches are mandatory.  However, I caution against saying that that file systems are dead.  There are a number [...]

I was asked a great question about cloud, file system access, clustered file systems, etc.  This is my response to that question/comment on one of my last posts.  Note that there are two parts here.  The first is about what I would call the content cloud and the second will be on the block storage [...]

So since I talked about my iTunes woes I’ve been finding continued mention of solving the problem of dealing with bulk data in the home.  Here is another article, from Australia this time, talking about the virtues of home based consumer NAS.  Heck even my own company has an offering in this space, which is [...]

There is a great article about GFS V2 — well that is the current name used in the public press — which talks about a new file system being created removing limitations imposed by the original nearly decade old version of GFS.  The key challenge: application I/O patterns changing due to increased interaction directly with [...]

As it takes a community to raise a child, it takes a strong group to build a solid strategy.  In an effort to expose a team  I work with regularly to the world, I’m going to have them as guest bloggers over the next several months.  Take a look at their materials, comment and supply [...]

So I just finished Children of Dune and I have started God Emperor of Dune. However I was faced with a problem finding a bookstore which had the tome for sale in English. Okay well good luck with that being an easy task while in Japan. So I figured I would give [...]

So today I got to wondering why on earth would EMC buck their normal trend, having only one enterprise array in the market at a time, with V-Max. This is one of those things that make you go “hmm”. Is there some uncertainty with the shiny new V-Max and keeping DMX around hedges [...]

USA Today looked at several consumer NAS products in this article.  In my recent post on iTunes woes I longed for a storage management application to manage my balooning iTunes digital media library.  (In fact iTunes is expressly mentioned within this article.) Well I believe that one of the reasons we are seeing reviews of consumer [...]

Pronounced “butter-f-s” as many are aware is the heir apparent to the extX series of file systems in the Linux ecosystem.  There is a really great article over at LWN.net on the history of btrfs.  Note that I’ve briefly mentioned brtfs before in the context of comparison to xfs.  I think that the the more [...]