BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London PRODID:-//developerFusion//DeveloperFusion.Events.Export 1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110927T163000Z DTEND:20110927T183000Z LOCATION:The Skills Matter eXChange, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, GB DESCRIPTION:In this free talk from a Big Data expert, Tom Wilkie looks at Castle -- the core of the Acunu Data Platform.The standard Linux storage stack wasn’t designed for write-heavy big data workloads, nor is it well-suited to modern hardware: large, slow SATA disks, SSDs or many cores. Castle, an open-source project, is a ground-up overhauling of RAID, file systems, and the POSIX interface. It is released under the GPL and runs as part of the Linux kernel. SUMMARY:In The Brain of Tom Wilkie: Castle: Re-inventing storage for Big Data UID:125492@developerfusion.com URL: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR