Published 11 months, 1 week ago
in NetApp.
I was browsing around the web the other day, and stumbled upon a blog entry from Jesse Ruderman. In this blog entry, he describes one of the reasons he likes the hosting provider DreamHost so much. You know what that is? Snapshots. Sweet! DreamHost uses NetApp! He mentions in there that he can access hourly, daily, and weekly snapshots by looking in his ‘.snapshot’ folder.
Working in engineering at a storage company, it’s not too often that you get to see someone use features that are in your products. This article is a couple years old - but it’s cool to see NetApp technology being used and appreciated. Jesse even did his homework and found the paper that the NetApp founders Dave Hitz, James Lau and Michael Malcolm wrote.
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So, as most of you know…even though I work on the Windows platform - I’m an Apple fan. As such, I subscribe to one of our mac mailing list to listen in on what other Appleheads at NetApp are doing. The other day, Albert Y., a fellow engineer in RTP ported an iSCSI load generator to the iPhone. He says he “ported it to run on Mac OS X a while back, so it was a matter of cross compiling it to get a native iPhone binary.” He goes on to say it “implements enough of the iSCSI protocol so that it runs completely in user space.” He ran some performance tests on it (over the WiFi network, I assume), and it generated 100 ops/sec to a NetApp FAS940 while playing music. 
Very cool! Albert - you definitely get some nerd points for that.
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