Category Archives: Data integrity

SNIA CDMI plugfest for cloud storage and cloud data services

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Ray

Was invited to the SNIA tech center to witness the CDMI (Cloud Data Managament Initiative) plugfest that was going on down in Colorado Springs. It was somewhat subdued. I always imagine racks of servers, with people crawling all over them … Continue reading →

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Eventual data consistency and cloud storage

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Ray

We were talking with Ursheet Parikh at StorSimple today about their new cloud gateway product (to be covered in a future post) when at the end of the talk he described some IP they have to handle cloud storage’s “eventual … Continue reading →

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Caching DaaD for federated data centers

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Ray

Today, I attended a webinar where Pat Gelsinger, President of Information Infrastructure at EMC discussed their concept for a new product based on the Yotta Yotta technology they acquired a few years back.  Yotta Yotta’s product was a distributed, coherent … Continue reading →

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Atmos GeoProtect vs RAID

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, twitterland was buzzing about EMC’s latest enhancement to their Atmos Cloud Storage platform called GeoProtect.  This new capability improves cloud data protection by supporting erasure code data protection rather than just pure object replication. Erasure coding has been used … Continue reading →

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