by Robin Harris | Monday, June 12, 2006 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
NetApp’s announcement of multi-petabyte namespace support in its Data Ontap GX 7G storage operating system – my, doesn’t that just roll off the tongue! – should allow it corner several shrinking HPC markets. Industrial Light & Magic used...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 11, 2006 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
iSCSI Is The Future Storage arrays are no longer magic and mystery. As Howard Marks explains in detail it isn’t very difficult to build multi-terabyte iSCSI arrays out of standard servers, adapters and software. And do it for less than $2/GB using high...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 2, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Storage Pie In The Sky Storage, the least sexy member of the Iron Triangle of infrastructure, is getting more buzz — and the right kind of buzz. At the Wall St. Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, Bill Gates stated that Microsoft is working on a...
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 | 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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