by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
BlueArc and Drobo founder Geoff Barrall has a new perch: Gridstore, one of the companies I’ve been following for almost 3 years. Geoff is the new executive chairman. Formal announcement is expected this week. Gridstore’s concept is a low-cost scale-out NAS...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
A StorageMojo reader has a problem. Can you help? Our mail hub (80,000+ mailboxes) is virtualized with vSphere 4.1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 and Dovecot 2.0 [an open source IMAP/POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems]. We are using HP LeftHand...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 10, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Most of us know what it is like when a relationship goes bad: the sinking feeling that this just isn’t going to work. Can this configuration be saved? Dear StorageMojo: I joined a company last year that is running Oracle 10g on a NetApp NAS/SAN. Immediately I...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 8, 2010 | Architecture, Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Talked to Nimble Storage a few months ago. The 1st time they sounded cool and now I know why. What they do Nimble builds a converged storage appliance out of commodity hard drives and SSDs that offers high performance – is there any other kind? – and...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
These requests came in over the transom in the last couple of days. Maybe some StorageMojo readers have wisdom to share. I have a question I hope you can help me with. My boss asked me . . . to research HP Left-hand SANs and Dell Equallogic SANs. Do you have any...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Imagine cloud storage that didn’t cost much more than bare drives. High density storage with RAID 6 protection, reasonable bandwidth and web-friendly HTTPS access. And really, really cheap. Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of a RAID systems cost. The rest goes for...
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