The Grid Guy

There’s the old adage …

“If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.”

I’ve counseled others with that same advice.  But now, I find myself frequently fighting that very conception – most recently, this past week at Oracle Open World.

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I knew it couldn’t possibly end there …

I recently sent Jon Toigo (DrunkenData) a formal response to questions he and some of his readers had about Data ONTAP GX, NetApp’s scale-out storage architecture.

In a followon comment, one of Jon Toigo’s readers, who failed to indicate his affiliation, but whose name links to LeftHand Networks :-), wrote:

“It’s nice to see NetApp being open about its GX architecture. This being said, the architectural deficiencies were clearly spun in a positive light with marketing hype.”

So, in the interest of educating that reader (and perhaps some other readers) about scale-out storage and the scale-out computing revolution, I thought I’d take the opportunity here to share some of my experience and personal observations. (more…)

It was only 25 years or so ago that Dinosaurs ruled the earth.

No, really.  Computing Dinosaurs, that is.

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So, is there such a thing as a “Storage Grid”?  And, if so, what is it? (more…)