by Robin Harris | Sunday, May 28, 2006 | Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
I came across an interesting product, NASLite+ from an outfit, Server Elements, that turns pathetic old PCs into servicable NAS (SMB/CIFS, NFS) heads. A 200Mhz Pentium with 64MB of RAM is recommended, and the minimum is a 486, according to Server Elements. It even...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 26, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
IMHO, both. In a storage industry where the hardware cost to protect data keeps rising, ZFS represents a software solution to the problem of wobbly disks and data corruption. Thus it is a threat to hardened disk array model of very expensive engineering on the outside...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 25, 2006 | SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Wouldn’t be great to stroll into an internet cafe, stick a flash drive in the USB port, and have your desktop, bookmarks and documents immediately available without leaving any traces on the host machine? That is what Lexar is promising to ship in July with...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 25, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
No doubt panicking after StorageMojo.com’s devastating analysis of their uncompetitive IT infrastructure costs [note to JWT: irony alert], Yahoo and Ebay announced a multi-year strategic alliance designed to ward off Google. The synergies are real. And ignore...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 25, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
A much more considered response to the StorageMojo.com critique of the Storage Revolution effort. I’m looking forward to continuing the dialog with John and everyone else about open source storage. Comments always welcome.
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