Tag Archives: Storage
Lesson in simplified storage shows how complexity fails
(This post originally appeared at O’Reilly Radar.) The default approach to most complex problems is to engineer a complex solution. We see this in IT, generally, and in cloud computing specifically. Experience has taught us, however, that large-scale systems belie … Continue reading
Cloud FAQs: OpenStack Storage (Swift) – Basics Q & A
We get a lot of inquiries from clients, potential clients, friends of the family, and strangers, particularly about cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Recently, we had someone ask us a series of questions about OpenStack Storage (Swift). Given that the … Continue reading
AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy
Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced. Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year … Continue reading
Deep Dive on VMware vCloud by Orran Krieger
Discovered, by happenstance, an interesting presentation by VMware’s Orran Krieger on vCloud. Really great information in here about VMware’s perspective on cloud computing, their cloud trajectory, and the vCloud architecture. This looks like a recent undiscovered gem for folks trying … Continue reading
Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?
As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate. Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else. Some consider “cloud computing” to … Continue reading
Challenges for Cloud Storage
I had a great time presenting on the challenges for cloud storage today at the SNIA Winter Symposium ’09 event. It was my first GoGrid-related presentation and it went very well. A very technical audience though, so there is actually … Continue reading
MySQL and ZFS Hitting the Big Leagues
Another outstanding writeup from Don MacAskill on MySQL performance improvements, including some notes on using the new Sun Unified Storage Appliances (aka ‘Amber Road’). I’m glad Don is sharing his crib notes as I’ve been unable to work on my … Continue reading
ZFS to go GPL?
Word on the street is that Sun is exploring the option of going GPL at the CEO level. They have been chatting with customer council(s) about whether they should do this. The answer is simple: Do it. Do it now. … Continue reading
‘Operators’ and ‘Administrators’
Operating and administrating Internet infrastructure is not the same. For the uninitiated it may seem that ‘operators’ and ‘administrators’ (systems or network) are not different, but there is one important distinction: The primary job of an operator is “risk aversion”, … Continue reading
Massive MySQL & ZFS Scale-Up Capability
This article shows how easy it is to throw hardware at a problem and ‘scale up’ and part of why I think it’s clear that using virtual machines in a cloud alone isn’t sufficient. Some times you can solve problems … Continue reading
