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Anyway, as i already wrote once today, i have never shared something of my family tradition before with you. That is what i am about to do now.
When a spell is cast with an incense burnt sometimes you return the ashes back to mother earth. You burry them near a tree or a plant and the plant has the magickal purpose of your spell(as the tree grows the spell becomes stronger-good for marriages,pregnancies etc).
Sometimes though, you spead the ashes to the wind, then the wind carries the message of your spell(good for people who are away,metaphysical connections etc).
Sometimes you throw the ashes in the sea-or a river, lake..- then the energy of the spell travells all around the world and back to you(good for money spells, you can expect the first results with the first rain, or cleansing-sending away negative energy and expect back positive one).
Sometimes you spread the ashes on the external of a candle(or use them as an ingredient to that), whenever you burn that candle the flame keeps the energy of the spell alive.
Sometimes you can combine the power of all four elements to enhanse your spell.
But, since i begun practicing my craft i started keeping some of the ashes i made. They are in a wooden box.This box contains all the energy of the rituals, that the ashes come from. When i have a child i will pass it on to it. Then if needed she will use some of the ashes to connect with that energy.
This is where it becomes a bit morbid. When i pass, the ashes of my rituals will beput in another box. One that contains the rituals of my family line. When needed we use these ashes to tap into our ancestors power.
If you start your own box of ashes, pick a beautiful big wooden box. Always be careful! Never put the ashes in the box , if they are still burning. Blessed be with a bit of my family tradition**
Ashes to ashes...
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Frape, the greek coffee
It is a beautiful day and when the sun comes out as a truly greek woman i have to drink "frape". Of course instant coffee is the thing you drink instead of the real one when electricity goes down. I feel the same way when it comes to hot coffee. But this is different, and you should try it. You put in a blender a spoon of instant coffee, two spoons of sugar and two spoons of water. You mix them, then you put the cream you made into a big glass and you add ice, milk and water. It is simple, as low fat, low sugar you want(you can also make it with aspartame) and yummy!!!
You would normally expect that i would post a recipe for musaka, but this is simplier and i enjoy it in a daily basis! So enjoy!
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Turning a new leaf
I returned today from the store, and stocked up my house on whole grain products, brown sugar,cereal bars, wholemeal breadsticks, etc..I even bought lemons so i can replace diet coke with homemade lemonade. It sounds ambitious, but i hope it lasts. Although i have to be honest i am not so sure about that brown rice. It seems... well, nothing like rice. So, i am cutting down on aspartame, white sugar, salt, and a little bit, on fat. Everything is light on fat in my refrigerator and to top it all, i even bought an icecream maker! No reservatives in my icecream. I hope i can make something eatable with it!! Today all day after a long time i have been proud of the stuff i have been eating. Usually i order so much take out food that i dont have to go for groceries very often. So this is a big change and a huge step. My soulmate( who by the way is so skinny that pisses me off) is not so happy about my new organic healthy craze. He loves his coke( he drinks 2 litres a day of that thing!!), he loves his greesy pizza and he really hopes that i will get over it soon.
At this point i have to add that i hate diets. I hate the whole concept behind them. I hate how eating disorders have taken over the western world. And i hate the facism of corporate media and the unhealthy body image that we are so used to it that our original healthy archetypes have been corrupted-hopefully not irreversably. So this is definitely not a way to lose pounds so i can fit into something, although i am chubby. It is about health and making my body stronger. So, the last couple of days i have been eating healthier and i broke my 2 meals per day habbit. I had a lot of snacks and a sufficient breakfast every day and i realised that although i am pmsing i am not craving for candy. Most of the times during the day i want a chocolate, a cookie or a dessert more than once. So, me not killing for something with frosting on it, while i am expecting my period is weird and absolutely out of the ordinary. I believe that this is a result of the frequent meals. By the way, i have a new obsession and it is mini breaks with cinnamon by all-bran.They rock! The bags are ridiculously small, but the upside is: "they can fit in any purse i am carring..."
As witches or pagans we are constantly trying to improve ourselves. Eating is a big part of our lives, it is the way we take care of us and our families, and this is the way we should consider it. Food is not our enemy, something that when it comes to our system we should feel guilt for. Food is not calories we h a v e to burn. Loving our body can get difficult sometimes because of our influences, but it is a big step that each and every one of us has to take on the path of self improvement. What i am saying is we should all take a good look in the mirror and concentrate in the things we like and then see that our "faults" are not really existing. I am sure that the advertises of cosmetics companies would like to prove me otherwise, and would hate to hear you say it. Just to see how serious i am, i will say it.
I love my stretch marks!! I invite you all to say things that you love on yourself either weight watchers and plastic surgents would want you to or not!!
That 's all from me, your almost crazy greek witch. Blessed be!
Queen? I am honored!
I am so happy today!! I have visited blogger -like always- not in the best mood because it is Sunday and i had to work and what did i find out?? I am a queen!!!! I am a queen because of my beautiful friends Spiral Dancer and See through green! My sign is Leo and i have always dreamed of being a queen and because of you two i now am! Thank you, we shall rule in peace and grace!! By the way, it is unbelievable how much i am enjoying this, and probably a litlle bit disturbing lol! I AM A QUEEN!!
I am sending lots and lots of love towards your way,can you feel it although you are in Scotland and Canada? I know it is pretty far but i feel really close to you guys. But i would like to pass on this honor to Tracy of Every little thing she does is magick and Dolly of Dolly and the black dog. I would also like to pass it on back to you although i know it is pretty pointless,but it is just my way to show my appreciation to you my fellow queens!!!
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My pendant was delivered today..
I just performed a beautiful ceremony to bless my new pentacle pendant. If i ever manage to achieve that level of technological skill, i will post a picture. It is actually a silver pentagram on a circle shaped white mother of pearl and it is handmade by a dear friend. I love it. I will charge it tomorrow while celebrating the esbat. The timing is perfect. Since i am pmsing i was n't in the best mood but the arrival of my pendant made my day. Blessed be**
I am a coward!
I am in a dillema! This year, like every year my conservatory is going to have a concert with the best students. I am participating to those concerts for the last four years. This year it is going to take place in a different place and i feel like i am not as prepared as i would like. This is also the first year that a professor of mine, a very vain professor of mine i might add, is going to join us with his choir. Since i am singing solo i have to be great, no mistakes can happen.
These are all excuses.. I am scared. I get the worst case of stage frights and this is the pure and honest truth. I know exposure is the only way to fight it, but goddess help me i cant! I love music, i love singing but i am a coward( i know this is not very wiccan of me, but this is how i feel). The stage, the lights, and the audience, they sum up my darkest of fears. Maybe all i need is a bit of supernatural help. If you have any ideas for herbs, spells,potions i could use i would love to hear them.
By the way, iwant to say a big thank you and lots of love to solitairy phoenix. Reading your post made me understand that i have to stop postponing it and face my fears. Brightest blessings to you all!
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What makes me pagan..
This is a response to a new blog : paganprompts.blogspot.com, that you should check out.
What makes me pagan? I guess the most distinctive characteristic of my pagan path is the way i connect with nature. You probably expected me to speak about magick, or Wicca, or even my psychic practice. Although all those things define me and are huge aspects of my life, they are n't the most important pieces of my pagan path. The way of cycles of nature, my goddess,the wind, the trees, the rain, the dance of flowers under the touch of wind, the smell of grass, a raindrop on my finger are the most obvious faces of Magick. That is the way i truly connect.
Once around the age of 16, long before i considered my self Wiccan, i was very upset. I was bursting to tears, soaking into grief, and i was feeling really alone in this world. I had tons of friends, a big family that cared for me, but i was so lonesome, no one could understand me. I was running through my neighborhood streets like crazy trying to find a place that i could hide. I found a rosemary bush and i cut a branch, then went somewhere no one could see me and i burnt it with a lighter that i had in my pocket, while i was asking for guidance from my dead grandmother( one that i never had a chance to meet). This wasn't a family ritual, it was more like a need. I am not a medium, but right then i felt her presense helping me, hugging me, guiding me. What i am saying is i was n't always Wiccan but i have always been pagan. I think that you can be pagan without altars, books of shadows. You can be pagan even if you are christian, because paganism is the way our heart connects with the divine through nature.
A tripping witch, or i love you guys
No rituals,no preminitions, no charms, no incantations, nothing is really setting the mood. To be honest i am not even doing something. I am just feeling, and what i feel is pure magick.Magick at it's best.I breath in slowly so i can really make it last. It amazes me because i am indoors just kicking back, i have n't even meditated today. Don't you just love it when this happens? This divine rush of energy running through you when less expected?
I am going to share with you something today. Maybe some of you will think i am crazy( which i totally am, but i am the harmless kind).Maybe some of you will think that i spent way much time watching Charmed(which i definitely did! But lets be honest who did n't?). But i am going to take the risk of you thinking i lost it and say it already. I believe that this way we have of sharing opinions, feelings, thoughts, even fears, while being so open about our beliefs gives us the opportunity to come across each others energies. And you all have beautiful energies. Dont get me wrong. I am not saying i am taking a potion and going to fight some demons or that we dont have dark sides. But before meeting you being a solitairy practitioner, was just it. Something that was mine and only had to do with me. I could n't share it, i could n't exchange experiences with other people. I have been lucky enough to work with metaphysics.I meet in my job so many people that find interesting anything metaphysical and even the fact that my family has a long magickal tradition, these are all things that i have been blessed with. But i have never known a Wiccan before, or even a pagan so well informed and open about their practices. So maybe i get a little enthusiastic and carried away. But i feel so glad i found you.
You can judge me all you want, but this is the way i feel for you: You are forces of light spreading good magick and wonderful energies..( Well, that is what we try to do)
Just so you know i am not doing any drugs and i am completely sobber!
Blessed be my witch friends.
April the first
Did you know that all fools day has celtic roots? The Celts were great fisherman and the beginning of fishing season was April the 1st. But no matter how good they were it is hard to catch a lot of fishes this early. So when they returned home they lied about their accomplishments and it sort of became a tradition. Many think that this is the way it all begun. So be careful and don't get fooled.
Yesterday and today i really feel spring is actually here. Trees and flowers are blossoming, the weather is great, even the birds outside my window are making happy noises. And although i did n't make it to the beach i ended up having a great road trip along with my beautiful dog and a nice night with my best friend. Thank you for all your support. It made a huge difference.
First thing in the morning a friend spreaded holy water over my house, and this evening i am going to have a ritual to welcome the new month. I hope it brings prosperity to all of us.


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Still-very-young English folk starlet Laura Marling seems to be touring all the time. Cathedrals, halls, theatres, you name it. This evidently isn't going to change in 2012, either, as she's just announced a fairly extensive tour of the UK for the first half of March. Have a peek down there at just where and when she'll be out and about.
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Soon it will be Christmas. What should you listen to? This is not a simple question.
Historically, Christmas has been an immensely prolific time for composers, especially (and obviously) for those writing for the Christian church. But this trove of musical riches is astonishingly easy to lose sight of, even in so artistically sophisticated a place as Boston. It can seem as though holiday offerings are confined to endless renditions of the "Hallelujah" chorus and an all-too-small group of holiday favorites.
How to break out of this rut? One strategy is to explore a Christmas distant in time and space from our own, and this is an experience that early music ensembles are especially skilled at providing. Two such groups are Boston Camerata, an ensemble of instrumentalists and singers, and the vocal group Blue Heron. This year, the former is presenting "The Brotherhood of the Star: A Hispanic Christmas," while the latter is offering a sampling of music for Advent, Christmas, and New Year's from 15th-century France and Burgundy.
"There's a reason we hear 'Messiah' and 'Nutcracker' every year — because they're so great," said Scott Metcalfe, Blue Heron's music director. "But doing these sort of alternative, 15th-century Christmases, there's no sense that they have a holiday anything like ours."
This is Blue Heron's sixth season of holiday concerts — Metcalfe said that in the group's early years they skipped it because, ironically, many of the singers could make more money doing "Messiah" performances. Boston Camerata, by contrast, began doing Christmas concerts in the early 1970s under Joel Cohen, now music director emeritus. (He is also directing "Brotherhood.") Many have proven to be among the group's most enduring programs.
Anne Azéma, the Camerata's artistic director, said of the impulse behind them: "It came out of a desire to remove oneself from the Christmas routine." By "routine," she meant "a canon that was developed in the late 19th century in America — a mixture of German-Scandinavian-English music which created this sort of postcard idea of all things that we think now as Christmas." That includes the caroling tradition that's especially strong in Boston, popular songs about chestnuts and angels, "Messiah," and other time-honored entries. "It's wonderful material, some of it at least, but it's become so overfamiliar that its impact is often lost."
"In a way, caught among all these things, you tend to forget that Christmas has been happening for quite a while," she continued. "For us, there is a desire to pull the curtain open and say, wait a minute, there may be other things out there. Let's look at them, let's enjoy them."
These are, nevertheless, holiday concerts, which means that an audience, no matter how adventurous, is going to want something that resonates with their own experience, even if the music is unfamiliar. How to construct an emotionally satisfying concert from obscure material?
One important point, said Metcalfe, is to not lose sight of the fact that Christmas isn't all about comfort and joy. It comes around the darkest time of the year, and in places like New England — and the Northern European climes his program explores — the world is cold and unforgiving. "I remember, as a kid, going to school in the dark, and you'd come home late and it would be getting dark," said Metcalfe, who grew up in Burlington, Vt. "There's this feeling that the world has changed a lot and it's less generous than it is in the summer. You get a sense that the winter is threatening to human life — it's dark and it's scary."
That's one reason the Blue Heron program begins with Advent, "the season where people are repenting and getting ready for something, but asking for help. We start in a kind of darkness.
"Then we move into asking for a savior, and then this wonderful event happens, and you can be celebratory," he went on. "But it's not a simple, here's this wonderful baby, ring the bells, drummer boy kind of thing. Rather, there's this unfathomable mystery about it, and a lot of what's expressed about it is just — wonder."
That intertwining of joy and mystery permeates the Blue Heron concert — nowhere more so than in "Factor orbis," a complex Advent motet by Jacob Obrecht that's been a mainstay of the program over the last few years. The concert also includes a set of songs for New Year's that were given as gifts at the courts. For a New Year's celebration, Metcalfe said, "it's amazing how many of these are really melancholy songs. They aren't party songs at all. Again, it just allows you to have very different emotions at a joyous holiday."
Azéma also mentioned the fact that the festive holiday happens at such an inhospitable time. "It's cold, and nature is not necessarily speaking in a very kind way," she said. "You start thinking about the place of man on earth and your place in your own life. And there's this terribly moving and disturbing story of a little creature being born, and what do you make out of that?"
"The Brotherhood of the Star" — which unites high art music of Spain, Mexico, and Peru with folk songs of Catalonia and Andalusia — includes traces of that seasonal darkness. One entry is a Gregorian chant whose text reads: "Orient, splendor of eternal light, Sun of justice: come and bring light to those who dwell in twilight and in the shadow of death."
Azéma said that listeners will almost certainly recognize a couple of the carols in the program, even if in new guises. "That's one way to include people." But also, she said, the program can touch listeners by showcasing music's power to unveil the full force of a narrative whose power cannot be dimmed, even by excessive familiarity.
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Seattle singer-songwriter Jill Cohn has written plenty of sad songs in her life, but many of the songs on her latest album, "Beautiful I Love You," are happy tunes, with lyrics about forgiveness, redemption and human relationships.
"I think most of my songs have that dark, melancholy side to them, but as a person and songwriter, I always strive to bring in the irony or the lighter side," she said. "In even the worst imprisoning situation, there is always a force that is working toward our liberation. My spiritual life seems to instruct and remind me of that direction. I'm no Pollyanna by any stretch of the imagination – like everyone else, I know firsthand that life can simply hurt and feel so hard – but it's what you do with that experience … (that) I'm most interested in for my personal life."
Cohn considers Colorado her second home, she said, and she returns to town to perform at the Vilar Center on Sunday night, when she opens for Danielle Ate the Sandwich at the Underground Sound concert series. For ticket information, see the story on page B1.
Vail Daily: You performed at the Vilar Center last season when you opened for Horse Feathers. What do you remember about the experience?
Jill Cohn: The beautiful sound on stage and the warm, receptive audience and the wonderful staff make for an amazing experience for the artist. I'm so excited to be coming back with my duet!
VD: You recently released your ninth album, "Beautiful I Love You." Tell me about it.
JC: My ninth CD was a labor of love! I started writing it while in a long-distance relationship and eventually took a "leap of faith" and moved down to California to be closer to this man. We were not real sure if our connection was going to be long term, but I decided to take a chance on it because we were also musical partners, as well. There are so many things that can assail one in the beginning of a relationship, let alone one that has 800 miles between you and the person that you're trying to get to know. Thus, the CD has an intermix of both the good and bad aspects of love and how we hope that our human experience of love between ourselves and another will somehow spur us on to find a deeper love between our own soul and the divine. The CD was produced by Seattle's Martin Feveyear, who also produced Brandi Carlile and Rosie Thomas. The disc also features sessions recorded in Los Angeles with Jim Watts, who won a Grammy for his work on Emmylou Harris' "Red Dirt Girl." The L.A. sessions also include performances by bassist Marcus Blake, who I met in Boulder on a night off from my own tour schedule, while Marcus was on tour with Daniel Lanois. All the guitar textures are by Dave Sampson, who will join me on stage at the Vilar.
VD: What can people expect from your show on Sunday?
JC: My songs are presented in a modern, folktronica-ambient duet, featuring Dave Sampson with an array of guitars and textures making a lush backdrop to my songs. I am performing on a unique, small-body, high-strung guitar, which has a bell-like quality and really was the centerpiece for much of my writing for "Beautiful I Love You." Dave and I spent a lot of time figuring out which instruments best conveyed the spirit of each song, and we are so excited to present these songs on the Vilar stage. If time permits, I'm sure to throw in a few of my older tunes from one of my previous releases.
VD: How did you meet Danielle, of Danielle Ate the Sandwich, and start opening for her?-
JC: I met Miss Danielle online and asked her if she wanted an opener for her show at the Vilar. Her music is so fun and our styles different that I thought it would be a good fit for an evening of music. Also, I've been reaching out to the younger, up-and-coming community of new songwriters on the scene, as I think it's a great contrasting evening of music for the audience to hear songs from two different generations in one evening. I've been a touring artist since 1996, and it's simply fun and fresh for me to be able to share an evening with another musical talent.
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Fighter jets part of increased U.S. focus on Korea
- Deployment of warplanes from Japan was already planned
- North Korea has stepped up rhetoric and military demonstrations in recent weeks
- Pyongyang has reacted with anger over U.S.-South Korean military drills
WASHINGTON — Two F-22 fighter jets now in South Korea could allow the U.S. to support a limited counterattack if North Korea follows through on its threats of recent weeks, according to military analysts.
In 2010, South Korea responded to artillery fire from the North with its own shelling, said Bruce Bennett, a military analyst at the RAND Corp. think tank. The F-22s, the world's most advanced warplanes, could be used to destroy artillery command and control facilities deeper inside North Korea, Bennett said.
"The aircraft could reach those targets pretty securely," Bennett said. "And they could deal with it promptly. Only sending a couple says we're not starting a major war."
Nonetheless, an airstrike on North Korean soil would be a significant escalation that could trigger an even larger response by the nuclear-armed regime. The hope, Bennett speculated, is that the presence of the radar-evading jets will be enough to prove U.S.-South Korean resolve and prevent an attack from the North.
The explicit nature of the threats from North Korea differs from the past, said Victor Cha, a Korean expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It has prompted a more robust response from the U.S. military, including the deployment of F-22s.
"It shows that the U.S. is not simply writing off bluster as meaningless and harmless, Cha said.
The concern is starting an escalating chain of attacks and reprisals, Bennett said.
"This is kind of like the Cuban missile crisis," he said. "What does it take to cap an escalating series of events?"
The Cuban missile crisis, which nearly sparked a nuclear confrontation, was defused when Russia agreed not to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Kennedy administration also made concessions.
Last week, two B-2 stealth bombers took part in joint exercises with the South Korean military. The bombers, capable of delivering nuclear weapons, flew from Whitman Air Force Base in Missouri, dropped dud bombs on a South Korean range and returned home. The bombers' mission came after threats from North Korea to attack U.S. soil with missiles, a capability the North likely does not yet possess.
The deployment of F-22s from Japan to South Korea had been planned for some time, said Army Lt. Col. Catherine Wilkinson, a Pentagon spokeswoman. It is the fourth time they have been sent there.
"The F-22 Raptors are one of many alliance capabilities available for the defense of the Republic of Korea," Wilkinson said.
The U.S. Navy also has a ship with sophisticated radar steaming in the region, according to a defense official who was not authorized to speak on the record. The official pointed out that it routinely operates there and has not yet been assigned to tasks specifically concerning North Korea.
The F-22 has had a checkered history. Conceived in the Cold War as the successor to the F-15, the F-22 was designed to dominate the sky, penetrate enemy air defenses and deliver punishing airstrikes. But it was plagued by delays, cost overruns and was of no utility in the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where it did not fly a single mission.
It also had problems with its oxygen system that resulted in the 2010 crash and death of a pilot.
Pyongyang has reacted with anger over routine U.S.-South Korean military drills and a new round of United Nations and U.S. sanctions that followed its Feb. 12 underground nuclear test, the country's third. Analysts see a full-scale North Korean attack as unlikely and say the threats are more likely efforts to provoke softer policies toward Pyongyang from a new government in Seoul, to win diplomatic talks with Washington and to solidify North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's military credentials at home.
On Sunday, Kim and top party officials adopted a declaration calling nuclear weapons "the nation's life" and an important component of its defense, an asset that wouldn't be traded even for "billions of dollars." Pyongyang cites the U.S. military presence in South Korea as a main reason behind its drive to build missiles and atomic weapons. The U.S. has stationed tens of thousands of troops in South Korea since the Korean War ended in a truce in 1953.
Contributing: The Associated Press


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What does tiered storage really do to performance?
- 28 April, 2011 00:52
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.
Enterprises are challenged to keep pace with mounting unstructured file data. While network attached storage (NAS) represents the optimal choice for storing such data, the strain to scale NAS economically while preserving application performance is like trying to use your fingers to plug holes in a dam that has sprouted thousands of leaks.
This is worsened by the fact that much of today's enterprise storage is consumed by inactive data. In response, vendors have delivered storage tiers and media types optimized to each tier. But tiered storage can increase latency, and nothing can eat at performance faster or frustrate users more than adding latency.
IN DEPTH: Struggling with supersized storage
How much latency is acceptable varies greatly. In the world of visual effects and computer graphics, for example, latencies of .2ms are considered a competitive advantage, while tolerances of 1ms or less are ideal in the database domain. On the other hand, users accessing a general purpose application may tolerate much higher latencies.
Tiered storage falls short in achieving targeted latencies. Among popular file serving benchmarks, measuring very high-end NAS devices with integrated tiered storage (including SSD technology), a .4ms latency was recently achieved. This was the absolute best the high-end NAS solution being tested could deliver. As the benchmark test added incremental client load, the latency increased, reaching .8ms.
What gives?
The issue isn't so much with the different media in a tiered storage device, but more with the underlying architecture. Within any NAS is a server with processors, memory and I/O. What makes NAS "NAS" and not a general purpose file server is the customized file systems and the many associated applications resting on top used to protect and/or optimize data placement.
Tiered storage architectures often execute clustered file systems, joining N number of nodes, load balancing across nodes, moving data to and from NVRAM to disks, hosting RAID controllers, performing housekeeping of file-system metadata, and executing data protection applications. The point is that NAS controllers perform many tasks that consume system bandwidth. The most sacred function is the orderly storage, retrieval and protection of user data, and not performance.
The question becomes, How do enterprises get the best of both worlds: scalable capacity and scalable performance that preserves low latency?
What is needed is a performance layer within the NAS that isolates high performing media such as Flash, a performance layer that sits alongside the NAS the enterprise already has. It is void of latency-consuming responsibilities, such as executing a file system. Its job is simply to cache hot and warm data and accelerate NFS processing such that clients get sought after data quickly. It should pass on newly written data to the back-end NAS while adding minimal latency, say as low as 10 microseconds.
Such a system should be capable of achieving .2ms in overall latency, inclusive of the NAS it supports and be able to cling to this level of latency as client loads scale. This is achievable because the performance appliance is tuned to accelerate NFS data, nothing else.
With such a performance layer in place, traffic destined to the NAS can be greatly reduced, meaning the NAS can scale more efficiently. It takes fewer disk drives and less controller bandwidth to achieve performance. The appliance serves as a high-speed cache, storing the most active data, supporting multiple NAS devices, and providing the benefits of tiered storage without the overhead.
Low latency afforded by a performance layer can also help general storage administration even if raw performance isn't the immediate goal. For example, a performance read cache can provide the means to use less expensive storage media while maintaining targeted performance: you can use less expansive SATA drives rather than SAS or Fibre Channel and even substantially increase the capacity utilization on these drives.
This is true when the working set largely resides in the cache and where write traffic, as characterized by leading file serving benchmarks, constitutes about 10% of the overall operations. By delivering extremely low latency on non-write data, increased latency by way of decreased IOPS on disk drives can be added to the mix. For example, SATA drives can be added, providing 45% fewer IOPS than SAS drives, adding perhaps 1.8ms in overall latency, but achieving 2.xms overall, which still might meet the performance objectives of the organization.
Introducing a performance layer appliance alongside NAS allows enterprises to achieve better latencies and achieve the advantages of tiered storage without the complexity and overhead of actually installing tiered storage, while achieving superior performance.
Administrators have the choice of granting these performance improvements directly to users or capturing it to offset the use of lower performing media for inactive data. Not only should a performance layer appliance deliver significant performance gains it should save the company tremendous capital, power, space and cooling costs. By reducing the dependency on the NAS to deliver both performance and capacity, and the associated data protection applications, much greater cost efficiencies can be realized. Disk-drive savings alone can be significant.
Alacritech was founded in 1997 by network storage pioneer Larry Boucher. The company develops NFS Acceleration appliances that mitigate network attached storage (NAS) sprawl and improve the performance of NFS infrastructures. Alacritech can be found at www.alacritech.com.
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