ScottK

First, thanks to those who wrote me, both online and offline, about my last post on the distribution of cluster node counts. As a follow-up, here’s a look at cluster asymmetry – that is, how often a cluster’s nodes are not identical. This is a non-academic question, since we’re in the process

I was thinking about cluster node counts the other day, and wondering about their distribution. That is, what percentage of clusters are two node, three node, four node, and so on. There are a couple of different kinds of clusters out there -- in this context, these are tightly coupled clusters fo

As the January 2011 issue of CIO Digest noted, a recent Gartner survey revealed data growth was the most cited IT concern for 2011 by large enterprises. One option to reduce disk storage growth is Thin Provisioning. Thin Provisioning allocates storage as needed, yet stays completely transparent to