On the pb scale of data, our HPC and DigiAssets teams use Panasas and Isilon respectively.
Im neither storage or HPC/DigiAssets so I can't provide lots of meat as to why they rock. I haven't heard much grumbling about why they suck. Sorry I don't have more, but is a start if youre lost. -- Nick Silkey On Mar 8, 2011 12:23 AM, "Andrew Hume" <[email protected]> wrote: > while i am no stranger to large data, i have found myself outside my comfort > zone at work. the department i have joined (i lateralled within research) > has traditionally used Sun as mid-range storage and Hitachi as their high-end. > > we now need to look at multi-PB disk systems (say 2-5PB), which i have > always thought of as a different market, with players like Parnasas. > as normal, we care rather less about IOPS and more about bandwidth > and $ per TB. > > anyone (doug??) with comments pro or con for this market? > > andrew > > ------------------ > Andrew Hume (best -> Telework) +1 623-551-2845 > [email protected] (Work) +1 973-236-2014 > AT&T Labs - Research; member of USENIX and LOPSA > > > >
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