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Send me your resume, or just go to the careers part of our site. EMC/Isilon is hiring; we have an office in Campbell though the main one is in Seattle. I'm 36, but there are people older than me doing dev work.

Now if by "no one wants older guys" you mean "won't pay what I demand", well, that is a part of economics. I'm paid significantly more than a starting employee. Maybe not quite as much as I could get elsewhere, but it seems comparable with industry pay for my level.

Clearly he needs some Scale-out NAS.

under-performing fileservers can kill you fps on HD go with the best available.

http://www.isilon.com/products/index.php

All good thoughts. Agree and all that. This being slashdot, instead of talking at length about agreement we'll have to up the ante and disagree about something (hah). Let's talk about that "you still need to mirror the SSD until your insane" comment. I'm finding in-box redundancy to be less and less useful. Check out http://www.isilon.com./ These guys, and emerging vendors like them, are beginning to move away from in-array replication of data to cross-array/cross-box replication. Packets are striped across the filers, instead of inside of the array. The beauty here, is that you can actually lose the filer chassis entirely, and you don't lose any data. You can replace when convenient, and get closer to the idea of "ignoring the chance of RAID-5/RAID-6 simultaneous disk failure". It's still not entirely there, mind, but since RAID rebuilds involve any disk in all of your racks, you have no need to do anything, the system is essentially self-healing.

Soon, Lustre file system will have such a feature. I can't wait.

Another vendor, mostly still in stealth mode, is here: http://www.xivstorage.com/

I'm sure you will find more and more turnkey cluster storage vendors hitting the market soon, precisely because clustered storage solves bandwidth, capacity, and manageability problems so well. All sorts of serviceability problems are cleanly solved by breaking away from classic RAID and moving to the right kind of cluster architecture.... problem is, until recently it's been a science project. Turnkey cluster appliances are right around the corner (or here, if you can live within Isilon's NAS-only constraints).

C//

At least some of their storage is from Isilon Systems, Inc: 34TB could be as few as three nodes, or as many as 40, depending on what model they're using and whether they have any accelerator nodes.

It would be nice to see comparisons to RedHat/Sistina's GFS, Lustre (backed by HP), and others listed here.

Also how does this compare to clustered storage that is not run on the hosts themselves like NetApp new Spinnaker based clustering. You also have folks like Isilon, Panasas, and Terrascale.

Anybody have an good data on this?
-Ack

http://www.isilon.com/

where's my multi-terebyte disk array

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