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Who Cares About Storage?
Yesterday, a customer asked whether some of the future directions for GlusterFS might result in less need for storage or system administrators. As part of my reply I hit on a theme that seemed to...
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Translator 101 Class 1: Setting the Stage
This is the first post in a series that will explain some of the details of writing a GlusterFS translator, using some actual code to illustrate. Before we begin, a word about environments. GlusterFS...
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License Change
As of a few minutes ago, the license on HekaFS changed from AGPLv3+ to GPLv3 – not AGPL, not LGPL, not later versions. This only affects the git repository so far; packages with the change still need...
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The beauty of little boxes, and their role in the future of storage
If you’re into 1960’s songs about middle class conformity, you may not have a positive association with lots of interchangeable “little boxes.” In storage, however, those little boxes are not only...
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Quorum Enforcement
As of yesterday, my most significant patch yet became a real part of GlusterFS. It’s not a big patch, but it’s significant because what it adds is enforcement of quorum for writes. In operational...
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Clouds Cannot Be Contained In A Box
A big part of the value proposition of cloud is to ensure that you have continuous access to your data, and that you’ve moved beyond the physical limitations of a single box or a single data center or...
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Why Thomas Jefferson could predict the next big thing in storage
In 1814, Thomas Jefferson donated the contents of his vast personal library of books and correspondence to form the foundation of the Library of Congress. Some 200 years later, that library is one of...
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Taxis, Zipcars and Cloud Storage
Ben Golub has a new blog post up, titled Taxis, Zipcars and Cloud Storage. Not sure how those things are related? Well, when having a recent discussion on the topic of what kind of car will we be...
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The Data Life Cycle Has Changed. Are You Ready?
by Irshad Raihan, Red Hat Storage – Big Data Product Marketing Digital data has been around for centuries in one form or the other. Commercial tabulating machines have been available since the late...
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What Can a Paper Shredder Teach Us About Big Data?
by Irshad Raihan, Red Hat Storage – Big Data Product Marketing The trusty paper shredder in my home office died last week. I’m in the market for a new one. Years ago, when I purchased “Shreddy” (of...
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