This week, Connectathon and FAST are running.
Yesterday I presented an update on the NFSv4 working group at IETF at Connectathon.
Today at Connectathon, (as I type), Pranoop Erasani is presenting a description of NetApp's pNFS server for Data ONTAP. Tomorrow, I've schedule to co-present with other storage vendors (icnluding EMC, Panasas, and Sun) at the pNFS BOF at the FAST 2009 Conference.
The Connectathon presentations will be available at http://www.connectathon.org/talks09/index.html .
Information about the pNFS BOF at the FAST conference is at http://www.usenix.org/events/fast09/bofs.html#pnfs .
One of the things I liked about Mike's presentation at Cthon was his emphasis on pNFS being about data management as much as it was about performance.
Customers like performance, but they also like for their NFS servers and clients to be easy to manage. While that traditionally may have meant configuring and monitoring the machines, more and more it is about getting the data in the right place.
Posted by: Tom Haynes | February 28, 2009 at 07:30 PM