The Contest
Posted inLife @ EMC

The Contest

You might have heard that EMC held an internal innovation contest back in October of 2007. It was a first for EMC. I was involved. If you want to know…
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Information Playground
Posted inLife @ EMC

Information Playground

If it's not clear from my posts already, I get the chance at EMC to work on a variety of cool technologies and products.  There seems to be no end…
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Regen vs Rebuild
Posted inCentera

Regen vs Rebuild

The ability for a storage system to recover from a disk failure is table stakes for block storage vendors. Customers expect fast disk rebuild times with minimal (if any) application…
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Do The Math
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Do The Math

I've been writing about the origins of RAID, observing the continual growth of CLARiiON, and commenting about the original software decisions that have fueled this growth. As it is with ...
I Got DIBs
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I Got DIBs

Do you think RAID-5 is ubiquitous? Straightforward?  Been there, done that? When you determine that your application needs an underlying RAID solution, do you think that RAID is commodity?  Do ...
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RAID-5 Rising
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RAID-5 Rising

RAID-5 is common in the storage industry. Are you taking it for granted?  Before you do, hear my story. You see, once upon a time, RAID-5 didn't exist..... October of…
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