by Robin Harris | Friday, July 21, 2006 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The Storage Forum provides a brief review of the open source FreeNAS project. FreeNAS is a small (less than 16MB) operating system based on FreeBSD 6 that provides free Network-Attached Storage services: CIFS, FTP and NFS. The money quote: Testing I did in my lab with...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The biggest knock against the X4500 I’ve heard is that it is too expensive. From a storage perspective it is actually absurdly cheap compared to the 5-10x charged by the name-brand storage vendors – and for lower data integrity than the X4500/ZFS system...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
A couple of startup funding announcements caught my eye yesterday, and when I looked a little further I found them both intriguing – but maybe not for the reasons investors would like. Gear6 is focused on the Server-Storage Performance Gap, which hasn’t...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 16, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
What about the data center investments of Yahoo, Google and Microsoft? Microsoft has commited to spend over $2.5B on capital and acquisitions – much of it to compete with Google. Yahoo will also likely spend about $1B just on computers and equipment. Google will...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
White Box Arrays (WBA) today remind me of the early days of personal computing before Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore built the first appliance computers. People bought bare PC boards and a bag of components to build their own computers. WBA’s aren’t...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Now Let’s Move On And Do Something Useful Not that it wouldn’t be useful if someone were doing it. It just isn’t happening. Aperi seems to have sunk without a trace, or at least a website, leaving behind just a few news stories. Storage Revolution is...
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