Tim wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com > <mailto:i...@ianshome.com>> wrote: > > > > The ideas aren't new, but the combination of the ideas is. NetApp is > still a box at the end of a bit of wire that the OS has to blindly > trust. > > -- > Ian. > > > > I'm not aware of many, if any large shops that are moving to a model > of "all internal disk with applications running on them". The sun box > will just be "a box at the end of the wire", a-la storage 7000 when > it's an nfs/cifs/iscsi target. Centralized storage is a *good thing*. > Maybe, but I'm sure that will change as the performance of the storage subsystems continue to exceed the performance of the bit of wire.
That's where the revolution bit comes in; applications can now coexist with NetApp quality storage management. -- Ian. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
