Posts by bear_all 12 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Sep 2011
RAID is about reducing the risk of data loss due to the physical failure of a spinning disk (in a nutshell.) Object orientated storage is a storage architecture that manages data as objects (in another nutshell.)
Bringing a box to market that implies no RAID, their words not mine, and is totally unsecure when joined to a network is obviously what every CIO and CSO love to buy.
Stick to the coffee lads.
Every storage vendor has the answer to everything when they are making their sales pitch.
Love to meet up with one of there post sales guys and ask him what the caveats are.
"So I now need to manage total storage array capacity taking into account thin provisioning, deduplication and cloning so that when a disk fails, i have enough space to re-write the data on that disk to the rest of the system? How do I manage that?"
"How many disks can fail before i notice performance impact of RAID calculations and busy disks, or am just not able to make those kind of corrections any more?"
Nothing game changing here, just another way of doing it.
Banks are shady, immoral, back stabbing, money grabbing, self important, two faced, hypocritical establishments that are only out for number one. Which is not you.
But....
They are backed, no matter how bad they are either, by governments and bigger funds and financial institutions that demand legislation when things go belly up.
It's not fair when they get away with stuff, but they only usually do it once.
Bitcoins / crypto currencies have none of that. Nothing at all. If you invest, you invest into nothing regulated or monitored. No legal body to turn to, nothing.
Banks and governments won't touch it as they have already got the mechanics in place for trillions of pounds, dollars, and euros, so what do they care when a few million bytes of nothing go missing...
*** Disclaimer*** Riverbed employee and formerly at a storage vendor. ***
From Cisco we got the USP platform and that at the last glance (prepared to be corrected) was the market leader in server build out infrastructure.
Riverbed will be pushing Granite hard in 2014 as a storage mechanism where your multi million dollar storage array sits in the DC and services the branch office by projecting the storage out from the DC. No more moving parts at the remote office (Storage vendor OS, firmware, disks, cables, floor space, networks, power...), no more ogranising site visits or trying to get tapes back to the mothership.
Shameless plug? Absolutely. Storage arena game changer? Who knows, but it's worth noting that companies are moving out of there prefered "traditional" territories and looking at other areas.
It doesn't have to be a startup that changes the landscape...
I'd like to think this was all the departments working together to make sure that anything found was water tight and didn't give a single loop hole (what that could possibly be) to let a monster walk.
Nothing would have been worse than getting the evidence and then finding out that it was some how tainted.
Draft in GCHQ evey time for me.
I have worked for several storage vendors and the complexity is mostly driven by the market.
Vendors would like nothing more than to sack half their coders and just fight over a few feature flaws of there competitors and price, but in reality, the latest and greatest is a necessity for most offerings.
It is by no means a myth that most vendors add a feature or spruce up their software logic to compete with the offering their competition has just announced, but why are they doing this? Because when a vendor is given a tender they are often judged on what they can offer over the next man, sometimes being closed out at the first stages of the game because the array doesn't offer Quasi Systematic Flash Auto Splice Tiering :-)
I like the days of create a RAID group and assign a LUN; it was easy with a modicum of storage magic to get it working and keep it working properly. Now you need to know the fundamental workings of the OS of choice intertwined with the kernel know how of the hyper-visor of choice to deliver maximum IO and lowest latency for minimal TCO.
If you're not autotiering your cloud with 17 layers of flash architecture then who are you? :-)
So it looks like you've changed the direction of the post to the gains of one individual, which let's be fair, is not unheard of.
But, it's no good making cans of air for 10p and then selling them for £10 if no one buys them. If the product has no basis for growth or increase in any margin then it's buying a cheap product with nowhere to go.
See Nokia for details. Cheap product with no fan base. End result is that Microsoft buy them to get a hardware portal for their software. Who is going to want to buy BB? Red Hat?
With no (obvious) out-and-out interested hardware / software vendor on the horizon for BB it needs to make sales to show value.
If BB do not release this phone as a loss leader and claw back some of the market they are doomed, as simple as that.
Some half baked idea they can charge premium prices for a phone that has little to no fan base will sink them.
It's an Apple and Android world and the only thing BB have to play with is price.
I read the original article and the rebuttle from the EMCer, and I think El Reg might have been a bit naughty in its original post.
It would be a bit like AutoExpress posting that "we took the 16 year old diesel VW and the new Lambo to do the shopping. The VW cruised to victory with a massive six bags of shopping while the Lambo sturggled with my Kellogs Variety Pack. Lambo have just been pwnd."
The infamous "yes and no" answer. Yes, the challenge was to do the shopping and get it home, but you wouldn't buy a Lambo to do the shopping in.
(This analogy was bought to you by The Acme Analogy Corp Foundation, where analogies are like a VW....)
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