Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Igor Smichkov Did anyone ever think that OpenSolaris Storage wouldn't be successful? Not for a minute! The opensource community is way too strong and plenty of SMBs,...
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© anonfx Seems we are all thinking open systems these days. Leading the charge are big companies like Sun Microsystems. If you are not up on what open storage is all about you might want to take a...
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Another quick little demo showing the self healing feature with ZFS. In this demo you are quickly taken through how ZFS can recover from data corruption in mirrored volumes. The demo first starts by...
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Want to see ZFS in a 5 minute demo? The following demo by Dan Price will show you some of the basics in using ZFS. This video will take you through using some ZFS commands with regard to:...
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© ARTS How about a completely new approach to file system / data management? I am always excited when the old is thrown away and something new is built in its place. The ZFS file system is just such...
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© laurenatclemson I have found what seems to be a super jumping off page for the OpenSolaris Storage initiative. This site is an "umbrella for the OpenSolaris storage and data management related...
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© aloshbennett Now if you know nothing about OpenSolaris, Open Storage, or how you might use them together: I just listened to a podcast from Nexenta and Sun about the OpenSolaris and Open Storage...
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Straight from the Sun Open Storage website: Why Choose Sun for Open Storage? Sun Open Storage solutions are supported by a global community that shares a passion to continuously improve Open Storage...
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The Blog of Ben Rockwood: Cheap Ass Storage: How Low Can You Go Ben rockwood runs the numbers on cheap, whitebox storage solutions.......
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Alfresco - The Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of open source...
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Create Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSH "As neither human nor computers are perfect (humans err / computers may fail) it is quite obvious that a good backup system will...
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FreeNAS: short review "Testing I did in my lab with FreeNAS on a high end Xeon with SATA disks simply screamed. There's just no other way to describe it. I ran my throughput tests five times...
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Herding CA(T)S Caringo Launches Software-Only CAS Solution: EMC, with the help of software from the Belgian company FilePool that they acquired the previous year, sought to apply an indexing scheme...
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Bacula, the Network Backup Tool for Linux, Unix, and Windows: I was talking with a friend of mine the other day, and he recommended that I take a look at Bacula - an open source backup Solution. I...
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Open Source Storage A new company to me, but apparently they've been around since 2001. "All we're doing is tailoring the software to meet customer needs," said Niazi."We...
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Open Source grids could be the answer; what's the question? Even with the open source virtualization/grid potential there is still a lot of talk about how exactly we can leverage all that...
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