Category Archives: Data Storage
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
IBM: Manage Data Like Cash
IBM today released a report tracking the effective use of business analytics at successful businesses. The report, “Breaking away with business analytics and optimization,” said that all businesses can differentiate their performance by analyzing data better and by delivering insight … Continue reading
Debian NAS project turns to SheevaPlug
Martin Michlmayr has published several guides about running Debian on the Linksys NSLU2 (“Slug”) router/NAS device, including one on migrating a Debian NSLU2 installation to Marvell’s SheevaPlug NAS design. With the latest guides on troubleshooting, booting, modifying, and cloning Debian … Continue reading
Gluster enhances open-source clustered NAS
Gluster adds data storage management, virtual server support to open-source clustered NAS Gluster is joining a recent wave of emerging vendors adding enterprise storage management features to clustered network-attached storage (NAS) systems based on commodity hardware with this week’s release … Continue reading
DIY NAS with Debian Lenny
Versia has a comprehensive guide to setting up Debian 5.0 on a VIA ARTiGO A2000 barebones storage server: After playing with FreeNAS I ended up using Debian for my server. FreeNAS is a great distribution if you want an out … Continue reading
FreeNAS ready for the next step – Future of FreeNAS
Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the original founder of the FreeNAS Project, has indicated that FreeNAS is in need of some big modification to remove some of its current limitations (one of the biggest is the non support of easly users add-ons). This will probably … Continue reading
Cheap and NASty – How to Build a FreeNAS Server
MaximumPC has a step-by-step article (Cheap and NASty – How to Build an Open Source FreeNAS Server) on how to set up your own FreeNAS NAS server. All this step-by-step with many photographs and suggestions as to the best hardware … Continue reading
Why NAS Might Overtake SAN Storage
“Truer words could not have been written, and they still ring true today. I am fond of saying that there are no new engineering problems, just new engineers solving old problems. Today SAN and NAS still dominate the market. Many … Continue reading
Media server offers up to 14TB NAS storage
Envive, Inc. announced a Linux-based, HD-ready media server that offers up to 14TB of network-attached storage (NAS) capacity. The TheaterStation Multi-Zone Digital Media Management System with Centralized Networked Storage is available with TheaterStation “TSClient Mini” satellite devices, as well as … Continue reading
New FreeBSD Foundation Project: HAST
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that is funding a new funded project: HAST “Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a grant to implement storage replication software that will enable users to use the FreeBSD operating system for highly available configurations … Continue reading
