article thumbnail

What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Handling a storage system spread across multiple physical servers introduces complexities such as unpredictability in behavior, difficulties with testing procedures, and an overall increase in administrative complexity due to the dispersed nature of data.

Storage 130
article thumbnail

Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.