Jul 29 2006

Open Source FreeNAS Project

Posted by admin in NAS, Open Source

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 ti…

May 12 2006

Storage vendors rewrite the rules of the game

Storage vendors rewrite the rules of the game | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-05-11 | By Mario Apicella:

It seems inevitable, like death and taxes. Every year, storage vendors renew their portfolios, de…

May 01 2006

PC World Review of 1TB Arrays

Posted by admin in NAS, Planning/Strategy, Pricing, Technology

PC World Review of 1TB Arrays

If you're looking for something a bit more comprehensive for home, or some sort of external storage for a small satellite office, this review of 8 trabyte storage…

Apr 25 2006

Network Storage and Backup

Posted by admin in NAS

Networking for Pros: Network Storage and Backup:

Paul over at NetworkingforPros (another part of the Creative Weblogging Network) had a chance to have a play with the Tandberg Intellistor 1.6TB NAS…

Apr 24 2006

Fujitsu Announces 1.3 Petabytes Storage Arrays

Posted by admin in Announcement, NAS, SAN, Technology, Vendor

DailyTech – Fujitsu Announces World's Largest Capacity Storage Arrays, 1.3 Petabytes:

Sometimes, it takes a stroke like this to realise how truly backward my current employer is, in so many way…

Feb 22 2006

Adaptec adds Opteron-based NAS

Posted by admin in NAS

Adaptec adds Opteron-based NAS | InfoWorld | News | 2006-02-21 | By Shelley Solheim, IDG News Service:

"The new 1U (1.75-inch) Snap Servers are Adaptec's first powered by Advanced Micro Dev…

Feb 18 2006

Who is Afraid of Microsoft?

Posted by admin in Microsoft, NAS

Who is Afraid of Microsoft? | Computerworld Blogs:

We all have our fun and bash Microsoft but WSS 2003 supports two of the most important technologies that I have been touting for the last year or …

Feb 17 2006

An iSCSI primer

Posted by admin in NAS, Planning/Strategy, SAN, Technology

An iSCSI primer:

I believe it [iSCSI] to have a very bright future, especially with 10-Gb Ethernet on the way and the significant difference in acquisition costs between a complete iSCSI installat…

Feb 13 2006

SAS Disks: The Next Generation of Something

Posted by admin in NAS, NetApp, SAN, Technology

SAS Disks: The Next Generation of Something:
Serial Attached SCSI. What's the hurry?

If SAS goes commodity cheap, competing with ATA, I won't trust the pricing stability until it is a high…

Feb 08 2006

The Business Cases for Storage Consolidation and NAS

Posted by admin in NAS, Planning/Strategy, Technology

A couple of potentially useful white-papers from computerworld – probably not a whole lot of new information in there for most of you, but I find this sort of thing to be useful when presenting busi…