If you have ever used AWS, read this is a fantastic article. I must say I didn’t understand a good portion of the tips. However, I learn a lot and I’ve bookmarked the page, which I expect to visit often.
Author Archives: Vince
Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems
Excellent article about a subtle problem in storage. It is presents a very compelling case for using Butter FS, ie, btrfs. Although it didn’t explain how it came to have such an unfortunate name.
Fire at Iron Mountain Data Warehouse
There was a massive fire at an Iron Mountain Data Warehouse in Buenos Aires.
First, nine first-responders died. May they RIP and may their loved ones find solace.
There has been significant data loss, with surprisingly far reaching consequences.
Moral of the story: back up your data!
BackBlaze Disk Usage
The BackBlaze Blog is an excellent source of some technical information. Recently, there were several posts regarding disk usage.
IBM Award
I have received an award from IBM to research integration of storage systems and cloud computing (ie, Hadoop). The award consists of some equipment and a cash award to support students. We received two IBM 7R2 servers and 240TB of storage.