Google has introduced a new configuration of the database within its cloud platform Google App Engine, after periods of instability in its cloud infrastructure. The High Replication Datastore (HRD) ...

I was recently in a discussion with a group of vSphere administrators about a particular lab environment, and we were upset that some of the Tier-1 storage was being used for workloads that weren't ...

The questions asked and the answers these developers provide are quite helpful in understanding both the pains and the beauties of the Bigtable abstraction. And while these developers are obviously ...

One of the new features available for vSphere is the ability to assign role-based permissions to datastores, including VMFS volumes. It is important to note that these permissions are managed ...

Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

Google’s datastore, known as Bigtable , is a column-oriented NoSQL datastore that is accessible via Google App Engine. Rather than the schemas you’d find in a relational database, Bigtable is ...