Monthly Archives: May 2009
Western Digital Sharespace (8TB) NAS device
Western Digital has updated its ShareSpace NAS device network-attached storage (NAS) device, boosting capacity and transfer speeds. The price is high for a 4-bay NAS device, but the WD ShareSpace NAS device has some appealing qualities. The protruding drive bays, … Continue reading
StarWind iSCSI Server now free
StarWind Software now offers their leading iSCSI SAN software – a fully functional basic version – at no cost. This new Free version permits an unlimited number of connections and a very large capacity of 2TB. StarWind ISCSI Target Free … Continue reading
BlackArmor NAS: Polished, with open-source heart
Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 is a Johnny-come-lately to the NAS market, but Seagate seems to have done its homework. Aimed at small businesses with 50 or fewer employees, this Linux-based appliance is full-featured and flexible, with the promise of further … Continue reading
Source Forge 2009 Community Choice Award (FreeNAS)
The 2009 of the Community Choice Awards 2009 is now open. You can vote for FreeNAS , the open source, FreeBSD-based NAS OS, by clicking here.
Google Could learn a thing or two from EMC
“One of the interesting (though increasingly tedious) parts about being a long-term technology analyst is seeing the same mistakes made over and over again. A young upstart company that is doing very well looks at a more mature firm and … Continue reading
What NAS can do for the Small Business
… Computer networks have become much easier to install and use. You don’t need a dedicated server, and many companies find that a local network can be worth the investment if only to share resources such as an Internet connection … Continue reading
Using FreeNAS as a SAN for an ESXi demo
I recently had to do a virtualization demo for a client. The need was to show a particular application stack running under ESXi, using storage mounted from a SAN. This all needed to be portable, inexpensive, and completed quickly. The … Continue reading
Fusion-io Working with Samsung on Network-Attached, Solid State Storage for Servers
Fusion-io, the leader in enterprise solid state architecture and high-performance I/O solutions, today announced the company is working with its vendor of the year, Samsung Semiconductor, to create the next generation of server-deployed, network-attached solid-state storage solutions that build on … Continue reading
Sun’s data storage ‘Startup’
It’s just a tiny part of a $13 billion company, but Sun Microsystems’ (NASDAQ: JAVA) Open Storage program exemplifies everything the company had hoped to achieve in its turnaround efforts. Built on intelligent storage controllers, industry standard hardware and open … Continue reading
How to setup OpenSolaris Open Storage Server
This is a great way to build UNIX based NAS server with all goodness of ZFS. Sun recently announced the addition of powerful developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities to help developers better leverage the growing open source communities … Continue reading
