Mark LaRosa (Principal Architect) discusses use cases for the Coraid storage solution: Customer story: DLA – Coraid AoE SAN plus ZFS NAS Customer story: i-cubed – high-throughput GPFS Next, Mark and Carl Wright go into greater depth on the Coraid technology: Whiteboard demo of Coraid LUN and RAID configuration with a few simple CLI commands […]
Storage Protocols Compared to AoE with Coraid
Robert Przykucki (Director, Product Management at Coraid) compares enterprise storage protocols: Physical configuration of Coraid arrays History of networking and storage Protocol stack comparison: AoE, Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI The iSCSI data path: Connection-based and serial The AoE data path: Connectionless and parallel
Kaminario CEO Dani Golan presents the K2 solid state storage solution
Dani Golan presented a deep dive into their solid-state storage array. He began with some background on the solid state storage revolution and the challenges this poses to storage array design. Using a recorded demonstration, Golan showed the scale-out K2 storage system recovering from the loss of an entire active storage blade. He then discusses […]
A Demonstration of Drobo Technology with Mario Blandini
Drobo Chief Evangelist, Mario Blandini, demonstrates SSD tiering with a Drobo B1200i. The intent of this demonstration was to show how the array performance improves once an SSD is added for BeyondRAID to use. Mario also passes around an Icy Dock (which Drobo uses to mount 2.5″ SSDs) and an OCZ Talos SSD. Mario also […]