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 | 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 | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Ian Sefferman is a founder of Openomy.com, a novel and compelling online storage provider with over 20,000 users. Only it isn’t just online storage. It is an online file system with open API’s so custom applications can be built upon it, just as they are...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 4, 2006 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
With Google and Microsoft talking about free storage online, maybe it really will take off. But what are our options today? You can start with this comparison chart. The focus here is internet accessible storage — not backup software that puts backups on the...
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...
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