Re:Future of Cloud Storage: An inside perspective from an Ia...
by cloudsigma on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @09:07AM
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Yes and no. The main issue we see with 10Gbps is networking topology. We don't want to roll out a star type networking which has a big single point of failure. The whole point of moving to distributed block storage is to eliminate this. Its difficult to build a grid layout with 10Gbps without going into silly money. With Infiniband it supports very well in grid configuration which is ideal for a distributed storage network. As a technology it has at least a few years left simply because it can offer 40Gbps and Ethernet won't be there at a reasonable cost for a while.
On the other hand, infiniband is fucking awesome. DMA over the network, anyone?