Posts Tagged ‘storage’
I mentioned in my RC2014 post that I’d got myself a new oscilloscope, so this is the blog post to complement my review on Amazon.co.uk. Background The ancient single trace Telequipment S51E that I saved from a skip a 6th form college as they upgraded to shiny new dual trace scopes has served me well […]
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Tags: 100MHz, 2 channel, digital, DSO5102P, electronics, Hantek, oscilloscope, review, scope, storage
One of the big news items from last week’s VMworld was the launch of EVO:RAIL, a ‘hyperconverged infrastructure’ reference design with software from VMware and hardware from a variety of partners. The RAIL part of the name comes from the smallest unit of deployment that fits into 2U of standard rack space, and onto a […]
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Tags: compute, EVO:RAIL, hyperconverged, management, network, SDN, storage, VMware, WMworld
Flocker is a volume and container management system for Docker based on ZFS. It allows for stateful containers, such as databases, to be moved between virtual or physical hosts. This provides a capability that is analogous to the live migration features of some virtual machine hypervisors. Version 0.1 has been released by ClusterHQ as an […]
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Tags: ClusterHQ, Docker, Flocker, storage, volume, ZFS
Update (14 Mar 2014) Andrew Weir pointed out that I the price is per month not per year – corrected accordingly. The big news of the last day is that Google dropped its pricing for Drive storage to $9.99 per TB per month. Ex Googler Sam Johnston says ‘So the price of storage is now […]
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Tags: cloud, cost, Drive, free, GCE, google, IOPS, performance, storage
This post first appeared on the CohesiveFT blog. One of the announcments that seemed to get lost in the noise at this week’s IO conference was that Google Compute Engine (GCE) is now available for everyone. I took it for a quick test drive yesterday, and here are some of my thoughts about what I found. Web interface […]
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Tags: access control, cloud, GCE, gcutil, google, iaas, identity, image management, network, performance, price, SSH, storage, UI, web
Not Only SQL
No, or Not Only One of the most sensible things to emerge for the recent no:sql(eu) event (which sadly I didn’t attend) was a statement that NOSQL should be expanded to Not Only SQL rather than No SQL. This is an interesting development, as there’s been lots of good stuff going on in the NOSQL […]
Filed under: cloud, software, technology | 3 Comments
Tags: cloud, database, dba, iaas, nosql, paas, rdbms, sql, storage
GDrive
I’ve been a keen user of Gmail since its earliest days, and I also use Google Apps at work, so I’m not surprised by the excitement around the launch of what people are calling ‘GDrive’, which is actually just a new feature of Google Docs that allows arbitrary files to be shared. What is a […]
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Tags: aws, bittorrent, cloud, gapps, gmail, google, s3, SMEstorage, storage
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