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Qumulo Launches To Manage Data At Scale

March 16, 2015 By Stephen 1 Comment

"We're getting the band back together!" That's how the pitch must have gone for the founding team at Qumulo, who also happened to create Isilon, now a major product at EMC. But what do you do after creating the most successful scale-out storage platform in history? Add in some advanced data management services and make it a software-only platform! What's Qumulo? CEO Peter … [Read more...] about Qumulo Launches To Manage Data At Scale

We Need a Storage Revolution

April 30, 2011 By Stephen 5 Comments

Although many discussions in the storage industry focus on the relative merits of one protocol or another, the conversation occasionally turns to the core issue at hand: We continue to patch together a system based on outdated concepts. Most storage protocols continue to mimic direct attached storage, and most of our so-called networks act as point to point channels. An … [Read more...] about We Need a Storage Revolution

Monitoring Filesystem Metadata For Thin Provisioning

January 3, 2011 By Stephen Leave a Comment

I began by introducing the core problem: Storage isn't getting any cheaper due to storage utilization and provisioning problems. Thin provisioning isn't all it's cracked up to be, since the telephone game makes de-allocation a challenge. So now let's talk about how to make thin provisioning actually work. There are 100 different ways of solving the de-allocation problem, … [Read more...] about Monitoring Filesystem Metadata For Thin Provisioning

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