The basic ideology of Cloud Optimized Storage Solutions, as noted in the
three previous installments, is to ingest significant amounts of both
structured and unstructured content and, operating within the confines of
SLAs and tiering, provide this data back to users with acceptable
performance.
In the previous three Cloud Optimized Storage Solution (COSS) articles in
this series, I’ve discussed the content being stored, the method of
storage, as well as principles derived from data tiering. Today, I want to
jump ahead a bit and discuss how neural networks and heuristics can impact
the processing of object and file data for the cloud.
One of the more recent advancements within computing has been the application
of heuristics and neural networking. Heuristics is defined as being “…an
educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that
result fr... (more)
This is a tongue in cheek video that I took in one of my labs showing why,
for no other reason but fabric reduction, that CEE/DCE/FCoE is a valuable
thing for ANY IT infrastructure.
A couple of things you’ll notice here are:
a.) it’s loud. Sorry about that…this lab is in a thermal chamber and it
gets crazy loud.
b.) I’m running Qlogic 2562 HBAs (fibre channel) and Qlogic 5802V switching
(more switches are coming)
c.) My GigE switches are, in a word, terrible (with the distinct difference
being the Foundry/Brocade switching which is good).
d.) I copt a TERRIBLE NorthEastern accent…I... (more)
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In part one of this series, we discussed the nature of content within the
cloud. After determining the nature of the content being stored, it is
important to understand how this unstructured and structured content will be
stored. The mechanism for storage has significant impact on a provider’s
Service Level Agreement (SLA) to the end user and can also promote the
concept of tiered storage within the cloud as well.
To evaluate this storage mechanism, you need to pull apart the storage path
to determine what influences it has on the content being stored.
Techn... (more)
Dave Graham's Blog
With the advent of Cloud Computing and the general resurgence of computing
grids, data storage has been taken for granted. However, as cloud
computing’s storage and access demands continue to grow, the need for an
optimized storage layer and hardware accompaniment become even more critical.
The general focus has been on computational power, integration points via
software (API access, for example), and code portability. Storage, on the
other hand, was considered a commodity to be taken advantage of; a simple
pool of storage for whatever data needed some level of... (more)
Dave Graham's Blog
In Part One of this Cloud Optimized Storage Solutions (COSS) series, we took
a look at the content being stored on COSS and in Part Two at how it is
stored.
Storage within the cloud is meaningless without a measurable level of
performance that it can be compared against. Since there are no established
benchmarks that determine performance of storage within a cloud
infrastructure, it is reasonable to apply tiering metrics to storage based on
content valuation and service level agreements (SLAs) and utilize this as an
overarching methodology to judge COSS storage... (more)
Dave Graham is a Technical Consultant with EMC Corporation where he focused on designing/architecting private cloud solutions for commercial customers. 
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