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  • IBM shows off file sharing NAS cloud

    IBM announced a clustered NAS file system today that is aimed at cloud computing environments that can scale in size to 14 petabytes of capacity under a single global name space. IBM SONAS addresses one of the key promises of Cloud computing, which…
  • Dell to buy data storage firm Exanet

    Looking to extend its reach in the storage space, Dell said it has put a bid in to purchase clustered storage vendor Exanet for an as-yet undisclosed amount. Looking to extend its reach in the storage space, Dell said it has put a bid in to…
  • HP buys storage firm

    HP has announced an agreement to buy Ibrix, a privately-held maker of clustered file system software used for creating large, highly available network attached storage architectures HP has announced an agreement to buy Ibrix, a privately-held…
  • Isilion looks to enterprise needs with new scale-out NAS

    Isilion has increased the maximum capacity of its network-attached storage (NAS) system to 5.2PB (petabytes),nn an effort to help enterprises deal with the ever-increasing amount of data, The company has also launched a new appliance to speed up…
  • Startup offers a path to private cloud

    We say, buy our software and put it on standard Linux servers - you can even re-use old servers as storage nodes - and you're a storage provider.Speaking at Storage Networking World Europe in Frankfurt, Krishnan said that enterprises should…
  • Nexsan gets beastly with business data

    The starting point is a subsystem holding 42TB, but it can be expanded to 336TB in a single 42U rack, and racks can be clustered to accommodate up to 4PB in a single virtual system. DATAbeast is aimed at small and mid-sized organisations which…

Latest Features

  • Guide to SAN and NAS virtualisation

    Examples include Brocade StorageX, NFS v4, and Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS).Clustered storage systems combine clustering and advanced file system technology to create a modularly expandable system that can serve ever-increasing volumes…
  • Oracle-Sun set to resell Pillar after merger

    For example, he pointed to Hewlett-Packard's proposed purchase of clustered NAS vendor IBRIX and Dell's purchase of iSCSI storage vendor EqualLogic.Pillar is doing reasonably well now -- they have some avid customers and industry supporters and…
  • The lowdown on the Techworld product awards

    Here was a product that made use of some innovative technology and which had been designed with users in mind (not around a technology with users considered as an afterthought).The first storage product that we looked at, NAS/SAN product of the…
  • Isilon seeing healthy demand for clustered storage

    Isilon Systems has made a name for itself as a pioneer in the field of clustered storage systems. Isilon Systems has made a name for itself as a pioneer in the field of clustered storage systems. And we won't comment on acquisition approaches…
  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the world, from Edison to Google

    You who are reading this will no longer be involved with buying, operating, managing or servicing DAS, NAS, SAN, clustered file systems, tape backups or optical storage. What has happened in the disk market will happen in the SAN array, the…
  • Storage in the cloud

    The massive petabyte-level scale of cloud storage would bring the cost/GB of storage to the fore and rule out traditional controller-based array building blocks on cost grounds.A rough consensus view seems to be that clustered NAS systems will be…
 

How-Tos

  • Case Study: Unified storage sorts out a Surrey hospital file problem

    File storage silo proliferation at The Royal Surrey County Hospital was avoided through use of ONStor's clustered NAS product. File access on the existing clustered Windows servers and others was becoming slow and suffered from outages.A clustered
  • Case Study: Keeping AOL's files in order

    It clustered it with IBRIX. Case Study: Keeping AOL's files in order Deni Connor, Network World IBRIX clustered file storage does the business for AOL How-Tos He found a number of cluster-based network-attached storage (NAS) systems from companies…
  • Case Study: Dating site marries 3PAR and ONStor

    For everything else and for storage access, we have clustered ONStor [Inc. Reason two is because they're clustered. The company 18 months ago deployed clustered storage systems to handle the photos, images, logs and other content types it has…
  • Open source software takes the storage stage

    Jacob Farmer, chief technology officer at Cambridge Computer Inc.in Waltham, Mass.has some clients who implemented OpenAFS and Lustre in order to avoid the high cost of clustered file system software from a company like TerraScale Technologies Inc…
  • How to assess open source storage software

    Jacob Farmer, the CTO of Cambridge Computer has some clients who implemented OpenAFS and Lustre in order to avoid the high cost of clustered file system software. Thousands of users are deploying open source storage software in an effort to avoid…

Reviews

  • LogLogic LX and ST families

    LogLogic LX and ST families David Cartwright, Techworld Making sense of your log files review,reviews Although the price tag will grow proportionately with the size of your company and its information storage requirements, you will at least see a…
  • Pillar Axiom storage system

    Although the Pilots handle the configuration and administration of the system, and are clustered for resilience, the day-to-day running of the system will carry on even if both Pilots die a copy of the configuration is held on every device in the…
  • SGI InfiniteStorage SAN 2000 Server

    An extension of XFS, SGI's proprietary high performance 64-bit filesystem the 'C' stands for "clustered" CXFS is specifically designed to optimise SAN performance. Built around off-the-shelf components with a solid reputation for reliability…

White Papers

  • Next Generation NAS

    Next generation NAS solutions offer clustered architectures that enables scalability of hardware resources for performance, capacity and reliability but with minimal increase in management complexity.
 
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