Honeycomb systems

November 5th, 2009 by admin

Take the emergence of SATA and SAS, for example; or the staggering increase in capacity of a wide range of storage media; or the ongoing acceptance of Ethernet as an alternative to Fibre Channel for block storage connectivity. After all, technological achievements are plentiful. Defining the single-most significant change in storage I have seen throughout the years could easily lead to multiple discussion threads. The product took two years to move from a project inside the labs to become to buy honey bees, but only a few months after delivering the petabyte-scale disk array that was code-named “Honeycomb” and that is a key part of the Constellation InfiniBand clustered system, Sun Microsystems has decided to open source the software that comprises the guts of the Honeycomb system.

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