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Links, 8/30/2008: Usable space, licensing Windows, multiprotocol VMware storage

30-Aug-08

Your Usable Capacity May Vary - Chuck conducts a thought deployment comparing EMC, HP and NetApp usable space for a 120 disk Exchange deployment. And while he glosses over a couple perhaps non-minor issues (RAID-5 vs RAID-DP and whether EMC’s snapshots are adequately performant), he does hit one of NetApp’s weak spots dead on: [...]

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Suggested Reading, 6/3/2008, Evening Edition

03-Jun-08

SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug) - Blog post about how SmugMug uses (and doesn’t use) Amazon Web Services; I found the comment that EC2 Persistent Storage “isn’t performant enough” intriguing - I’ll be interested to see what its performance characteristics are once it’s available to the public. Excerpt from the post: “Let me [...]

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