From article:
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with funding from server maker Quanta and flash chip maker Samsung, are combining flash storage and field programmable gate arrays in a new way that is yielding a peppy and scalable storage cluster that rivals that bandwidth and low latency of very high-end storage area network or clustered file systems.
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.
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!
The BackBlaze Blog is an excellent source of some technical information. Recently, there were several posts regarding disk usage.
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.