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  • VMware, Citrix users targetted by virtual PC start-up

    A backup and recovery feature replicates all user customisations in the data centre, and CacheCloud works with any type of direct-attached storage, SAN or NAS products.According to a 451 Group report on Unidesk, the company has developed a highly…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Startup • Reduces • Deployments • Delivery • Data Center • Brodkin

  • HP upgrades StorageWorks SANs

    A P4000 Unified NAS Gateway is expected to begin shipping on April 5. The company also announced the availability of its SAN clustering software, SAN/iQ with its MSA P4000 midrange array. Hewlett-Packard upgraded to its entry-level modular storage…
    17 February 2010
    Tags: Shipping • Sec • Fibre Channel • Failover • Centers • Automated

  • Overland Storage unveils iSCSI SAN first

    Overland Storage unveils iSCSI SAN first Lucas Mearian S2000 array software can remotely manage SAN and NAS systems news Then, in 2008, Overland acquired the SnapServer network-attached storage (NAS) business from Adaptec, and Kelly moved it.
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Sec • Networkattached • Library • Iscsi • Expansion • Array

  • Intel to launch Jasper Forest storage chips

    The processor is aimed at applications such as ultra-dense blades, IPTV, VoIP, network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN). Intel to launch Jasper Forest storage chips Lucas Mearian Embedded storage controller aimed at SAN, NAS…
    11 February 2010
    Tags: Xeon • Raid • Functions • Failure • Embedded • Controller

  • Pillar updates Axiom storage array

    The Slammer is the processing engine or controller unit, which is fully redundant, and the Brick is the physical disk drive tray, each of which supports up to 26TB of capacity.An Axiom Slammer can be configured as a block-level storage area…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Modular • Cache • Controller • Fibre Channel • Hard Drives • Processing

  • Intel SSD support ditched by Pillar

    Intel has admitted to firmware problems with the X25-E SSD in the past, but said it resolved them with an upgrade.Intel did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Pillar's decision.Based on commodity hardware, the Pillar Axiom acts as…
    17 September 2009
    Tags: Modular • Cache • Fibre Channel • Disk Drives • Array • Arrays

Latest Features

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    In some respects, system administrators function like auto mechanics, needing keen diagnostic skills and repair capabilities to keep a complex mixture of disparate systems operating as a whole.Of course, data centres have become far more complex…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Skills • Harder • Developments • Centralised • Car • Article

  • Guide to SAN and NAS virtualisation

    The primary example of this new style of controller-based virtualisation is Hitachi Universal Storage Platform.File virtualisationJust as block virtualisation simplifies SAN management, file virtualisation eliminates much of the complexity and…
    26 November 2009
    Tags: Requests • Split • Provisioning • Storage Systems • Agents • Hosts

  • Cisco data centre guru on IPv6, virtualisation and strategy

    You plug in a NAS device, a camera into IP, you expect it to work, right, whether it is my switch or someone else's switches. Our architecture connects servers to our Nexus 5000 access switch which in turn splits the Fibre Channel traffic to the…
    03 November 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Perspective • Data Center • Virtual Machines • Migrate • Incremental

  • How clouds and fibre has remade the data centre

    Storage has been moving to IP for years, with a significant amount of storage already attached via NAS or iSCSI devices. Switches need to support the ability to run storage traffic over Ethernet/IP such as NAS, ISCSI or FCoE.
    18 September 2009
    Tags: Adapter • Adapters • Transport • Access Control • Enforce • Reduces

  • Oracle-Sun set to resell Pillar after merger

    Based on commodity hardware, the Axiom acts as an application-aware storage-area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) server all under a single management interface. For example, he pointed to Hewlett-Packard's proposed purchase of…
    17 September 2009
    Tags: Hitachi • Microsystems • Array • Founded • Mention • Hds

  • Server virtualisation rings iSCSI vendor's bell

    In between then and now, we tried to simplify things by giving each application its own cheap server, but that ramped up the overall power consumption and moved the complexity elsewhere in the overall structure.Cormier's contention - borne out in…
    15 September 2008
    Tags: Virtualised • Iscsi • Block • Nas • Sans • Server Virtualisation

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How-Tos

  • How to get started with virtual machines

    Though Linux distributions abound, a VMware appliance is a great way to sample a prerelease version of your favorite distro, for example, without giving it free rein over your PC, the majority of appliances are open-source server-based…
    27 August 2009
    Tags: Capture • Boot • Microsystems • Guest • Mouse • Operating Systems

  • Case Study: Giant steps are what you take

    It is intuitive to use and can manage other data and storage platforms, such as Windows, NAS, or SAN if we require this in the future. A Luton hospital has taken giant file handling steps by using Moonwalk's file migration software that supports…
    09 November 2007
    Tags: Platforms • Migration • Policies • Failure • Data Management • Data Storage

  • How to reduce your boxes

    StorageIf you consolidate the storage into a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN), then you need to add host bus adapters (HBAs) for each physical server, preferably with virtualised features so they work with the VMware virtual machines…
    04 September 2007
    Tags: Admin • Consolidation • Rack • Accessed • Skills • Provisioning

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

    ONStor, Brocade and Sun provided Royal Surrey County Hospital with the means to avoid having three separate picture image silos and deliver cost savings too - by having a NAS gateway front-ending a Brocade/Sun SAN.
    23 May 2007
    Tags: Consolidated • Brocade • Storagetek • Clustered • Scalability • Data Storage

  • Case Study: Keeping AOL's files in order

    He found a number of cluster-based network-attached storage (NAS) systems from companies the likes of Panasas, Isilon, PolyServe (now HP) and IBRIX. One of the things we liked about IBRIX over those other options is that they've re-implemented the…
    23 April 2007
    Tags: Aol • Upgrades • Cluster • Deployments • Nas • Nodes

  • Case Study: Dating site marries 3PAR and ONStor

    Online relationship site uses ONStor NAS Gateways back-ended by 3PAR utility storage. NAS gateways connected to 3PAR gateways. Everything except the database is accessed via the ONStor NAS arrays -- photos, profiles, anything being stored.Why did…
    19 April 2007
    Tags: Failure • Upgrades • Duplication • Gateways • Clustering • Stores

Reviews

  • Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Rackmount review

    The Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Rackmount comprises four disks, RAID, enjoys good management and okay software, and it all comes at a bargain price.The world is awash with entry-level network-attached storage (NAS) devices, some of which on a bad…
    14 May 2008
    Tags: Admin • Active Directory • Utility • Status • Tricks • Business Advisor

  • Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Rackmount

    The cooling required on PC-based NAS models can make them noisy this one is barely hums.The system boots up in a matter of minutes, offering status on a number of variables such as link speed, RAID status (0,1, 5 and 10 supported), and assigned…
    13 May 2008
    Tags: Admin • Active Directory • Utility • Rack • Gigabit Ethernet • Redundancy

  • HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition 5.1

    If you have HP ProLiant Storage Servers or NetApp filers you'll be needing the NAS Manager plug-in which can discover them, map out IP and FC connections and provide real-time performance and resource monitoring.
    20 June 2007
    Tags: Insight • Compliant • Agent • Bar • Heterogeneous • Advised

  • Sun Fire X4500 server

    All told, the process of turning the X4500 from a standard Solaris server into a very high-capacity NAS was as quick as that of any canned NAS solution on the market, but without built-in extras such as replication (although ZFS can be configured…
    08 June 2007
    Tags: Chassis • Fire • Raw • Sata • Limit • Pci

  • Asigra Televaulting

    The vault comprises hard disks but this adds another layer of flexibility as it can be anything from DAS, NAS or SAN storage. Asigra's Televaulting software puts an interesting spin on data backup and recovery concepts as, unlike the majority of…
    14 September 2006
    Tags: Service Providers • Backups • Operator • Secured • Billing • Vault

  • Pillar Axiom storage system

    Each Slammer can provide either NAS or SAN services though you cant do both at once on a given unit. To create a new NAS volume or SAN LUN, you just go to the appropriate screen and select Create. The NAS and SAN configuration screens allow you to…
    28 April 2006
    Tags: Active Directory • Screens • Licences • Volumes • Split • High Availability

White Papers

  • Massively Scalable NAS

    IT managers have always liked NAS solutions because they are easy to manage when compared against the alternatives provided by DAS (direct attached storage) and SAN. NAS has in the past fallen short in its ability to scale capacity simply and…
    17 September 2008
    Tags: Pre • Attached • Budgets • Nas • Scalability • Scalable

  • Creating Efficient Data Centers with Service Oriented Infrastructure

    With the proliferation of external SAN and NAS storage devices, storage sub-systems have become critical. Todays data centers are moving from isolated islands of applications to virtualized application environments running on consolidated data…
    10 July 2007
    Tags: Environments • Requirements • Capacities • Centers • Pressure • Next Generation

  • Xgig

    Selecting the right protocol analyzer for debugging a SAN or NAS is a critical decision for developers. Xgig Finisar Powerful Hardware-Based Ethernet/iSCSI Analyzer for SAN and NAS whitepaper Traditionally, software-based application-level tools…
    13 April 2007
    Tags: Iscsi • Wire • Resolution • Capture • Analysis • Nas

  • Ford Otosan Builds on Network Appliance SAN and NAS Solution

    Ford Otosan Builds on Network Appliance SAN and NAS Solution NetApp Faultless disaster recovery in an earthquake zone whitepaper A thorough review of storage solutions yielded a choice of two alternatives: a NetApp unified storage solution or a…
    21 March 2007
    Tags: Disaster Recovery • Dedicated • Availability • Business Continuity • Netapp • Datacore

  • iSCSI: Accelerating the Transition to Network Storage

    Networked storage in turn consists of two suboptions: storage area networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS).Today, more than one-third of storage sold is networked storage, a fraction that analysts expect to grow to two-thirds over the…
    23 January 2007
    Tags: Architectures • Analysts • Attached • Networked Storage • Data Storage

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