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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Not sure how many of you saw it, but Larry Ellison threw down the gauntlet today (at least in this bloggers opinion) at Oracle Open World, announcing that Oracle would maintain and support (it’s own?) RedHat-based Linux distribution, Unbreakable Linux.

Reminds me of an old cartoon …

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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…)

New York, New York.  It’s a helluva town.

Leonard Bernstein (or more accurately, Betty Comden and Adolph Green) had it right.

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Distributed Resource Management (DRM) solutions had their origin as simple batch schedulers capable of dispatching jobs to “free” cpu resources for technical computing applications.  Over the years, these systems have evolved to provide a wide range of job management services that include sophisticated rule-based dispatching mechanisms, environment replication, preemption, checkpoint/restart, and reporting.  Now, as some of these technical computing approaches find their way into the core of the enterprise, DRM is establishing itself as a key technology to enable Enterprise Grid computing models.

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