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by Dave Cahill
The Register's Chris Mellor penned a great article the other day reflecting on the continuous cycles of innovation and disruption that have come to characterize the storage media industry. He uses Kodak to paint the picture of an incumbent getting capsized by a media transition. He goes on to cite other examples across tape and optical media where incumbents failed to manage the transition to the next generation media.
by Dave Wright
In our first two posts on storage tiering we talked through the difference between capacity-centric vs. performance-centric approaches and also exposed some of the hidden costs of an automated tiering implementation. Closing out this mini-series I wanted to touch on a few other deficiencies inherent to an automated tiering solution.
by Dave Wright
Amazon launched a new service today: DynamoDB. It's a scaleable NoSQL database service that will run in the AWS cloud. It is akin to a hosted version of Cassandra or MongoDB with unlimited scalability. The most notable section of Werner Vogel's blog announcing the new service is worth repeating: