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New Briefing Note by @georgeacrump "DriveScale - Disaggregated Hadoop Clusters"

Web-scale applications are designed to run on dozens, if not thousands, of small commodity servers, which expect direct-attached storage. As a result storage performance and capacity is directly tied to the purchase of more compute (servers). Over time almost every scale-out cluster ends up with either too much capacity or too much compute, wasting data center floor space, power and budget.…