Tag: Storage
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EMC and the 7 Dwarves
Good wrap up of the big iron storage industry.
EMC and the 7 dwarves – part 1 and EMC and the 7 dwarves – pt 2:
EMC has been gaining marketshare over the last several years. The world’s largest data storage company is getting larger. […] EMC’s position is analogous to IBM’s in the 70s: EMC has the most successful scale-up OLTP arrays; offers better support; and keeps adding useful features.… Continued
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Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim’s secret chip startup for big data
Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim’s secret chip startup for big data:
My sources tell me the startup is building a new type of chip — they said it’s really a module, not a chip — that combines a small amount of processing power with a lot of densely-packed memory.… Continued
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What is DSSD building?
The brains behind the ZFS filesystem – including Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – have been hard at work for several years at start up DSSD. What are they doing with Andy Bechtolsheim’s money?
Interesting speculation based on patents that they filed…
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How Many DBAs Do You Need To Support Databases?
Forrester’s Noel Yuhanna makes a point in How Many DBAs Do You Need To Support Databases? that it may not be the number of DB instances per DBA that counts, but the total size of the DBs managed. His data suggests that a DBA manages DBs worth 5TB of data on average, and that companies with a high ratio of instances to DBA have a lot of small DBs.… Continued
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How Good Is Your Database Storage Management?
Oracle asks How Good Is Your Database Storage Management? I’ve not had time to go through the storage assessment form, so this is more a reminder for me to eventually look at it than anything else.