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Managing the Blast Radius as System Components Get Bigger – Storage Field Day Roundtable
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As every component of IT infrastructure gets bigger, we need to consider the impact of component faults. The so-called blast radius due to a failure has always been a consideration, and was taken into account with RAID, replication, high-availability architecture, and more. Even a small server has over a dozen cores, a terabyte of memory, and many terabytes of storage. We must also consider the inflation of data, adjusting for the size of applications and data sets, when comparing the impact versus historic systems. The reason components have become so large has more to do with economics of production and sale than with customer demands, and the ratio of storage capacity to data throughput has fallen, making the blast radius a real concern.
The conversation is moderated by Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT and features David Klee, Enrico Signoretti, Glenn Dekhayser, Andy Banta, Ray Lucchesi, Frederic Van Haren, Richard Kenyan, Gina Rosenthal, and Jim Czuprynski.
Personnel: Stephen Foskett
Where Do We Draw the Line Between Storage Infrastructure and Data – Storage Field Day Roundtable
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Infrastructure is no longer the focus of enterprise IT, with the value of data and applications rising in prominence. Although infrastructure software and services are critical areas of consideration, the individual components that underly these systems are no longer as important. Most compute, memory, storage, and networking components function and perform similarly, so it takes a truly exceptional device to rise above the abstraction of datacenter and cloud platforms. Even when we do talk about IT infrastructure we are often referring to infrastructure as a service (cloud) or infrastructure as code not individual devices.
This roundtable discussion is moderated by Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT and features commentary by Ray Lucchesi, Enrico Signoretti, Richard Kenyan, Andy Banta, Glenn Dekhayser, Frederic Van Haren, Gina Rosenthal, and Max Mortillaro.
Personnel: Stephen Foskett