Jan 19 2006

On Storage Grids

Posted by admin in Grid, HP, IBM, NetApp
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Storage Grids – A Visionary Architecture for an Intelligent, Scalable, Reliable, and Agile Storage Platform:

HP present a document on Storage grids. From the abstract:

The concept of grid computing promises an on-demand and highly utilized computing environment that appeals to many enterprises. Recent developments in server virtualization technologies enable server resources to be centrally managed and distributed – similar to the way a storage network partitions storage resources.

More on storage grids:

What Is Grid Storage?

Grid Storage Defined.

NetApp's take on Grid Storage…

…and Hewlett Packard's

IBM has something to say on Grid Storage open standards


One Response to “On Storage Grids”

  1. jason Says:

    Andrew,

    we are building a storage grid here.

    We plan to store about 1TB safely using Open Source technology.

    Is tehre a hardware/ software recommendation you have for us?

    Jason Trafar

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