Posts by Flippingbits

No one trusts Oracle, shrieks CCL as cloudy ball misses its goals

CCL might be whiny...

...but they're not wrong.

Bringing AFA SAN orphans in house

Re: Woops Missed One

The article is about AFAs. All Flash Arrays, in this context meaning arrays designed from the ground up, which cannot take spinning disk.

Calling a compelllent lacking any spinning disk an all-flash array in this context is misleading. It's like calling an all-flash VNX an AFA.

All awash in red ink, but Overland Storage is still swimming

"The fast growing data storage market"

By what measure? Lol.

Microsoft lobs Files app at WinPhone users with lots of ... uh ... files

Re: Apple

Ugh. Probably the one thing I hate the most about the IOS platform. Having to trade files between aps through APIs is also what's preventing it from becoming the general purpose operating system that it could be.

El Reg drills into Office 365: What's under the hood?

Re: Its nice (in a borat voice), but 99.9% ...

You should check out the sla. The three nines is for service availability. If you get less than three nines you get some amount of free service. At no point do you get a refund.

Also, note the service availability fact. There is no SLA around data availability.

Reg boffins: Help us answer this Big Blue RAID data recovery poser

Re:

That sysadmin is full of shite. Firstly, any flipped bits on the raid set are going to be duplicated in the backup set. Second, all decent storage manufacturers maintain checksum data to detect flipped bits, and then use RAID to fix them. Which os why a failed disk in a raid-5 set is a dangerous place to be in if you don't have scrubber functionality in your array. Third, mature array technology often includes technology to do that aforementioned scrubbing. This dramatically reduces the incidence of a flipped bit causing a rebuild failure.