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Why I Abandoned the Rackspace Cloud | Sachin Rekhi

tough experience at Rackspace, but very rational and reasoned account

rackspace cloud reliability choice storage bandwidth cost via:luis
july 2010 by sogrady

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Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs

i'll give this a try, but unless it's free streaming, Dropbox is still the better option for me

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Google is slashing prices for online storage | Gravitational Pull

"To be sure, Google’s new service may turn out to have some limits or catches that haven’t yet been disclosed. And taking full advantage of the space may require other software developers to jump in and write some middleware apps (as happened with Amazon’s S3).

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Why we moved away from “the cloud” to a “real” server « Boxed Ice Blog

interesting cloud vs self-hosted use case with numbers

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september 2009 by sogrady

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MySQL Performance on Sun Storage 7000 : Performance Profiles

low cost, high efficiency observable storage would seem like a nice pairing with MySQL

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july 2009 by sogrady

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Build your own Drobo-Replacement based on ZFS « Agile Developer, Berlin, Germany

interesting usage of ZFS to duplicate features in some consumer storage/backups

zfs storage drobo backup
may 2009 by sogrady

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ongoing · The Sun Cloud

a nutty schedule has prevented me from talking direct w/ Tim about this, sadly, but it looks interesting. need to write it up after getting the walkthrough.

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march 2009 by sogrady

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A quote from Mark Pilgrim

what about Sumerian cuneiform tablets?

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Official Google Blog: Sorting 1PB with MapReduce

as a couple of folks have observed to me now, it's interesting that Google isn't further ahead than it is

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Amazon Web Services Blog: Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities

yup, we'll have a lot more on this. you heard it here last!

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october 2008 by sogrady

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valhenson: To SSD or not to SSD?

wherein Val destroys SSDs in general. i'm still glad i have one, but this is clearly worth a read for prospective SSD buyers.

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october 2008 by sogrady

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Online Storage: Oosah Hosts up to 1TB of Media Online for Free

1 terabyte? for free? this is either the greatest plan ever, or they are going to go away very quickly

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september 2008 by sogrady

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Mike Shapiro and Steve O'Grady Talk FISHworks : Storage Stop

Mike and I talking FISHworks...on the street

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september 2008 by sogrady

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Sun Jumps Into Flash - Forbes.com

and it's about time, too. i wish vendors were pushing harder to drive ssd's, thereby compressing the cost.

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june 2008 by sogrady

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The Economics of Online Backup - Inside Lightroom

though for larger datasets the economics are worth looking at

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february 2008 by sogrady

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EMC to launch 'EMC Cloud' Web service-SAP exec | Reuters.com

as they should. by the end of '08, i'd be surprised if most of the larger systems (servers, storage, etc) vendors don't have at least pilot cloud projects running. it's like musical chairs; they won't want to be the ones left w/o a chair.

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february 2008 by sogrady

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Free Space to Three Gigabytes « WordPress.com

"Over the past year we’ve developed our file infrastructure, replication, backup, caching, and S3-backed storage to the point where we don’t feel like we need to artificially limit what you folks are able to upload just to keep up with growth."

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Inside the Box » Blog Archive » Solid State Hard Disk Drives

why Thinkpads don't have SSD as an option. like LEDs, strikes me as a bit of a smokescreen for the conservativism of their largest customer base, but that's admitted in the comments. if an X were available w/ LED backlighting and an SSD, i'd buy one now.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Recording Artist: Don't be a ZFS Hater

James is right: an excellent piece on ZFS

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Redefining the Architecture of Memory - New York Times

i know these "three-to-five" year things have a history of not panning out, but still, this is cool.

via:dberkholz memory nano research storage technology
september 2007 by sogrady

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Bill de hÓra: Phat Data

"The use of RDBMSes as data backbones have to be rethought under these volumes...When the likes of Adam Bosworth, Mike Stonebraker, Pat Helland and Werner Vogels are saying as much, it behooves us to listen." - this drumbeat is getting louder by the day

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Google Operating System: Windows Live Folders, Online Storage Service

this would be interesting

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Gspace

am i wrong, or is this not a major violation of the TOS for your Gmail account?

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may 2007 by sogrady

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SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » The Perfect DB Storage Array

thoughts on scaling up w/ DB's and storage arrays from the folks over @ SmugMug

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | ETech '07 Summary - Part 2 - MegaData

if you liked Adam Bosworth's "Where Have All the Good Databases Gone", this is important, just trust me (see also Bill's comments); on a completely unrelated note, great to meet Joe in person - albeit briefly - last week

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Mozilla2:Unified Storage - MozillaWiki

the grand Mozilla plan re: unified storage - need to write more about this later, as this is more than a bit ambitious

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february 2007 by sogrady

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zumastor - Zumastor Linux Storage Project

interesting, and likely necessary (see ZFS), project from the Google folks to boost Linux' storage capabilities

zumastor google via:jdub storage backup replication linux
february 2007 by sogrady

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TheOpenForce.com: Two New MySQL Storage Engines

even more MySQL storage engine action

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Microsoft fights Gmail in the workplace | APC Magazine

"Microsoft is fighting the trend for corporate employees to duck IT policies and auto-forward all their work email to Gmail." - just talked to someone the other day who's doing this

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december 2006 by sogrady

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SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Show me the money

"Total amount spent on S3: $84,255.25...Total savings: $339,430.75" - the economics here are interesting in a profound way

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november 2006 by sogrady

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TheOpenForce.com: New MySQL Storage Engines

and the InnoDB issue gets even further into the rearview mirror; need to look into who's using the engines in production, because i still do ususually see either MyISAM or InnoDB

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Official Linden Blog » Blog Archive Amazon S3 For The Win «

the Second Life folks are finding uses for S3

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Sphinx - Open Source SQL Full Text Search Engine

"It can be installed as a storage engine type on MySQL, and from what I hear can beat the pants off of MySQL's built-in full text search in some cases." - i need to look at this more carefully; there are lots of folks looking for this function

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november 2006 by sogrady

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JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3™

trialling this right now - kudos to the JungleDisk folks for the Linux client

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october 2006 by sogrady

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ACM Queue - Rationalizing a Home Terabyte Server - Self-indulgent, or a view of the future?

mmm...home terabyte server...

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Joyeur: Oh Thumpers, Oh Thumpers

Joyeur guys are Thumper fans, it would seem

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august 2006 by sogrady

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Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: Now in a Browser Near You: Offline Access and Permanent, Client-Side Storage, Thanks to Dojo.Storage

how in the hell did i miss this? not sure about the Flash underpinnings, but fascinating nonetheless (via Alex)

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april 2006 by sogrady

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MySQL fills Oracle-consumed hole in database

News.com, April 7th, 2006

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april 2006 by sogrady

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The Observation Deck

Bryan on the launch of ZFS

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november 2005 by sogrady

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Hal Stern: The Morning Snowman

fully agree: "This need for less speed (but more capacity at a good price) is going to affect the consumer market."

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june 2005 by sogrady

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E-mail retention a must after Morgan Stanley case | CNET News.com

one potential reason for the Sun/StorageTek deal? ""There's a reason why certain people, why lawyers like to talk on the phone rather than have any written record of conversations,"