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More ZFS on EC2

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Randy Bias

Looks like Don MacAskill discovered the joys of MySQL on ZFS running on OpenSolaris. This is great stuff. When we release Scaleen later this year as part of the CloudScale Project, it’s going to make managing ZFS+EBS on EC2 trivial … Continue reading →

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Short-Sighted about Cloud Computing

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Randy Bias

There seems to be a group myopia around so-called ‘cloud computing’ and it’s definitions. What we’re really talking about are ‘cloud services’ of which, ‘computing’, is only a subset. It gets worse when you have people talking about Software as … Continue reading →

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ZFS in the Cloud

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Randy Bias

I’m quite pleased to see that you can now get OpenSolaris with Amazon’s EC2. OpenSolaris on EC2 means that you can now run your storage and/or databases in the cloud on top of the ZFS filesystem. Among the number of … Continue reading →

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Storage, Storage, Storage

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Randy Bias

Storage requirements are exploding causing more and more small and medium businesses to employ creative solutions to stem the tide. In December, Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), posted a blog entry about projected enterprise data growth. The … Continue reading →

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