The piece of spinning Fe3O4 (ie rust) is by far the slowest piece of equipment in the IO stack. Heck, they didn\’t invent SSD and Flash for nothing, right. To overcome the terrible latency, involved when a host system requests a block of data, there are numerous layers of software and hardware that try to […]
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Six years ago I wrote this article : Open Source Storage in which I described that storage will become \”Software Defined\”. Basically I already predicted SDN before the acronym was even invented. What I did not see coming is that Oracle would buy SUN and by doing that basically killing off the entire \”Open Source\”
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Storage vendors are getting nervous. The time has come that SMB/SME level storage systems can be build from scratch with just servers, JBOD\’s and some sort of connectivity. Most notably SUN (or Oracle these days) has been very busy in this area. Most IP was already within SUN, Solaris source code has been made available,
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