Monthly Archives: January 2010

NexentaStor Developer Edition 2.2.1 available

NexentaStor Developer edition versioon 2.2.1 was released a couple of days ago. Check the release notes before downloading the NexentaStor iso image.

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Nexenta Systems announces record growth in 2009

Nexenta Systems, the leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that 2009 was a breakthrough year for the company. Key milestones for the year included a 740 percent increase in full year revenue from the previous year and an increase in … Continue reading

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High-availability storage with GlusterFS on Ubuntu

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 9.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage … Continue reading

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Diskless NAS shares USB storage via WiFi

The Iomega® iConnect Wireless Data Station is a simple way to bring all of your desktop and portable USB storage into your network. Plug your external USB drives or USB thumb drives (any brand) into the Iomega iConnect device and … Continue reading

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NAS, SAN, DAS or iSCSI? Which one to choose?

Choosing the right Storage Technology for Your Organization IT Professionals has a post with some background information on the most common storage technologies that are currently available: NAS, SAN, DAN and iSCSI. If you’re running a small/medium seized business this … Continue reading

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Released: Amahi 5.1

The team behind Amahi Home Server have release version 5.1 Announcement | Changelog | Website

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Google to switch to EXT4

Google is apparently in the process of migrating their current EXT2 file-systems over to the more current EXT4 file-system (Ubuntu 9.10 uses it by default) Phoronix reports This was brought up in a JFS benchmarking discussion. Google’s Michael Rubin shared … Continue reading

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