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Gluster, new member of Open Virtualization Alliance

Gerard — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:49:20 +0000

Gluster, a provider of scale-out, open source storage for public and private clouds, has announced it has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance The Open Virtualization Alliance assists businesses with technical advice to better understand and evaluate virtualization options. More and more open source communities are joining together to provide best practices on managing the development [...]

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Gluster Expands Open-Source Scale-out NAS

Gerard — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:23:33 +0000

Open-source storage vendor Gluster has introduced a couple of new additions to its scale-out NAS platform. The company claims these are the first scale-out virtual NAS appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Known as the Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances, they come in two flavors – one for virtual machines (VMs) and one for [...]

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A guide to network attached Storage Devices for Backup

Gerard — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:33:22 +0000

The New York Times has put together a guide helping you find the best NAS storage servers for your need: “… [a] NAS provides a central hard drive on which you can store, share and back up all files from multiple computers in the household. The NAS drive connects via an Ethernet cable to a [...]

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Addonics Mini NAS

Gerard — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:06:13 +0000

The Addonics Mini NAS is a small portable Network Attached Storage enclosure solution in the market. Come built in with fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps connection, any 2.5″ SATA hard drive or Solid State Drive (SSD) can be installed into the Mini NAS and become instantly sharable over the LAN. A USB printer can also be shared [...]

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ReadyNAS Vault 1.1.2 update released

Gerard — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:18:52 +0000

Netgear has announce a maintenance upgrade to the ReadyNAS Vault that address issues reported by some of its Vault users. Changelog 1. Enhanced Session Management: Added auto-recovery of secure sessions to streamline performance and long-running backups. Eliminates known issue that produced intermittent stalling (this was the one that was affecting the larger files). 2. Reporting [...]

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NAS evolving into “Cloud NAS”

Gerard — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:16:27 +0000

Ashish Nadkari discusses cloud NAS in this Q&A. His answers are also available as an mp3. What is cloud network-attached storage (NAS) and how does it work? Cloud NAS is a subset of cloud storage, which is also known as Storage as a Service (SaaS). When most people think about NAS, they think about a [...]

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9 Data Storage companies to watch

Gerard — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:48:21 +0000

Building a data storage start-up in this economy is quite a challenge, but there is room for innovation in an industry suffering from inefficiency and massive growth in data volumes. CIO.com has put a list together of nine data storage start-ups that are trying to address such problems with technologies including memory virtualisation, flash-based solid-state [...]

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Apple releases 2TB Time Capsule (router/NAS drive)

Gerard — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:54:49 +0000

For those of you looking for more capacity in Apple’s combo 802.11n router/NAS drive, the company has boosted its top-end Time Capsule to 2TB. Apple’s latest backup device ‘2TB Time Capsule‘ is available for purchase via Apple Online Store for $499. Boasting a 2TB of storage space, this portable device functions as a wireless router [...]

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HP, IBRIX, LSI, ONStor and scale-out NAS

Gerard — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:21:09 +0000

John Webster from CNet has a look at the recent NAS/Data Storage takeovers: HP bought Ibrix and LSI acquired ONstor. He looks at the different company, how they complement each other and what effects the takeovers may have. Everything changes rapidly in ‘storage land’: “During the last two weeks we saw two acquisitions of relatively [...]

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LSI acquires NAS provider ONStor

Gerard — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:31:24 +0000

LSI Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ONStor, Inc. for approximately $25 million in cash inclusive of assumed debt and other net liabilities. ONStor, a privately held company based in Campbell, Calif., provides clustered network-attached storage (NAS) solutions designed to help enterprises consolidate, protect and manage the accelerating growth of [...]

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