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One of the topics we keep coming back to at Systems Approach is “when should a feature be made part of a platform”. This question is at the heart of much of the work we have done over the years, and it is a reason we keep returning to the End-to-end argument in all sorts of contexts. This week we’re looking back at how the arguments played out in the context of traffic engineering.
For many years, military-system designers relied solely on direct attached storage (DAS) devices when they needed to deploy data storage on military platforms. These devices are embedded within or directly attached to the computers, such as single-board computers (SBC) on a platform. When a DAS device is used, only the specific SBC it’s attached to can access the stored data-at-rest (DAR). With Ethernet becoming commonplace on modern platforms, network attached storage (NAS) devices (also known as network file servers [NFS]) have emerged as an important alternative for deployed data ...