Apple Drops ZFS Plans Amid Licensing Issues
(Oct 29, 2009, 07:28 UTC) (2404 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "A three-year effort to add Sun's ZFS file system to Apple's Mac OS appears to be dead."

Terabytes of Storage for Pennies a Gigabyte
(Sep 11, 2009, 06:42 UTC) (4348 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "One online backup provider took a hard look at data storage costs and decided to build its own storage servers for just pennies a gigabyte. Backblaze's solution — a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at a cost of $7,867, or a little more than 11 cents a gigabyte."

Configure Bacula for Open Source Backups
(Jun 26, 2009, 18:47 UTC) (3725 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseStorageForum: "Since we covered installation and a very basic initial run the last time we looked at Bacula, let's look at some of the more specific configuration options and capabilities this time."

Linux-Powered Enterprise Storage: Openfiler
(Jun 25, 2009, 19:48 UTC) (3879 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "One network storage software vendor, Openfiler, never needed to be convinced of the benefits of offering enterprises an open source network storage operating system."

Falling 10GbE Prices Spell Doom for Fibre Channel
(Jun 18, 2009, 21:33 UTC) (4045 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "I have been tracking the prices of 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) for more than a year, and just recently I have started to see what I have been expecting: Dramatic price drops in 10 GbE."

Oracle, Emulex Unite to Fight Data Corruption
(Dec 3, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (3655 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "Oracle announced today that it is contributing block I/O data integrity infrastructure code to Linux, which has been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel."

Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB
(Nov 13, 2008, 09:03 UTC) (4415 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "In this article we are looking at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB under Ubuntu Linux."

Using LinuxDefender Live to Rescue Your Windows NTFS Drive
(Sep 24, 2008, 14:02 UTC) (6365 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Did I actually mention Windows and NTFS in the title of this post? It's a good thing I managed to squeeze a little Linux in there or I'd commit myself to the nearest convalescent home immediately."

The Enterprise and Open-Source Storage
(Jun 27, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (5862 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Storage Soup: "...I've also heard similar withering talk about Sun's open storage in particular, and can only imagine Sun's open-source push is making this topic timely..."

Remote Backups for Linux and BSD
(Jun 2, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (7326 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Raiden's Realm: "Backups are an important element of system maintenance on any system, and should be, at least in my opinion, mandatory for all users to perform regularly..."

Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future?
(May 31, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (13007 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "My article three weeks ago on Linux file systems set off a firestorm unlike any other I've written in the decade I've been writing on storage and technology issues..."

Redundant Array Of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)--Technical Paper
(May 29, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (10045 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "The storage capacity and data retrieval speeds of Hard Disks have increased multiple folds in last few years..."

Online Storage with Wuala
(May 27, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (6988 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "At it's most basic level, Wuala is an online storage service. Like other services it aims to allow you to access your files from anywhere, even if your home or office computer is turned off..."

Recover a MySQL Table with Zmanda Recovery Manager
(May 13, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (6444 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "If somebody accidentally drops a critical table in MySQL, the application no longer works. The solution to this problem is to utilize the (open source) Zmanda Recovery Manager..."

Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For
(May 12, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (14522 reads) (19 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "Linux file systems have a number of limitations that make them a poor choice for large and high-performance computing environments..."

Geek Sheet: Bare-Metal Backup and Recovery
(May 8, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (10747 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Between the Lines: "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job...?"

Indexing Offline CD-ROM Archives
(May 8, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (5943 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "Suppose you've been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything...?"

Backing up Microsoft Exchange... with Yahoo's Zimbra
(May 4, 2008, 20:00 UTC) (7668 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxWorld: "But a small Austin-based vendor is using Zimbra to complement, not replace, Microsoft's market-leading e-mail server..."

Sun Pushes Open Source Storage
(May 3, 2008, 16:00 UTC) (6954 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "The vendor contends that open source technology provides cheaper, more cost-effective storage infrastructures, just as open source efforts in the past led to cheaper server environments..."

Bacula: Backups That Don't Suck
(Apr 24, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (9474 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Good systems administrators know that implementing a robust backup procedure is one of their most important duties..."

Gifts of Open Source
(Apr 22, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (5288 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxWorld: "Combining 'Open Source' and 'storage' in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications..."

Benchmarking Linux Filesystems on Software RAID 1
(Apr 22, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (11485 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Lone Wolves: "A couple of months ago I got a couple of wonderful birthday presents. My lovely geeky girlfriend got me two Western Digital 500 GB SATA 3.0 drives, which were promptly supplemented with a 3ware 9550XS 4-port hardware RAID card..."

Inspecting Disk IO Performance with fio
(Apr 10, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (9625 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Storage performance has failed to keep up with that of other major components of computer systems. Hard disks have gotten larger, but their speed has not kept pace with the relative speed improvements in RAM and CPU technology..."

Linux Gains New Architecture Support
(Mar 28, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (8602 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Dozens of network-attached storage (NAS) servers and other consumer appliances are about to gain mainline kernel and Debian GNU/Linux support..."

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System
(Mar 24, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (7420 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Debian Etch)..."

Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 7.10
(Mar 12, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (7031 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "BackerUpper is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine..."

Multipath Storage with Xen and DS4800
(Mar 12, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (7291 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
developerWorks: "Virtualization technology was part of the IBM mainframe decades before virtualization gained its current industry adoption..."

Manage a Linux RAID 10 Storage Server
(Mar 5, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (10551 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Today we'll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in our RAID 10 array. We'll make it bigger, smaller, safely test failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure notifications..."

Back Up Your Files With Fwbackups On Fedora 8
(Mar 3, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (6851 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up, configure and use Fwbackups on a Fedora 8 desktop..."

Sun's Source Code Donation Met With Skepticism
(Feb 28, 2008, 19:00 UTC) (8331 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "Sun is donating the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 system to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities..."

Create a Backup Server with Restore
(Feb 21, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (10584 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Perhaps the number one reason why people neglect to back up their desktops is the lack of workable solution. It can be difficult to find a method configurable enough to suite everyone's needs..."

Build Your Own RAID Storage Server with Linux
(Feb 21, 2008, 08:30 UTC) (11714 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "If you've been thinking of building yourself a dedicated storage server, this is a good time to do it..."

CleverSafe Out With Commercial Open Source Dispersed Storage Network
(Feb 19, 2008, 19:45 UTC) (5225 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "Open source storage startup Cleversafe is moving into the second stage of its evolution, with new hardware appliances built on top of its core open source dispersed storage network technology..."

Managing Hardware RAIDs with Adaptec Storage Manager and Ubuntu
(Feb 14, 2008, 08:30 UTC) (12655 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Ubuntu Server deployment confronts a roadblock in terms of hardware management of redundant arrays of independent disks..."

Debian/Ubuntu Linux Install and Configure Remote Filesystem Snapshot...
(Feb 14, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (7959 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
nixCraft: "I'd like to configure my Debian box to backup two remote servers using rsnapshot software..."

Backing up in Ubuntu is Finally Made Simple: TimeVault
(Feb 12, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (11021 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
Techthrob: "File backups are a key element for every user and on every computer..."

CLI Magic: Manage All Your Archives with atool
(Feb 6, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (6759 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to handle many different archive formats and compression schemes using a single command-line interface..."

Creating Snapshot-Backups with FlyBack On Ubuntu 7.10
(Feb 5, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (7260 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "FlyBack is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive..."

HP Introduces Linux-Based NAS Appliances
(Feb 2, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (15024 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Hewlett-Packard is debuting two Linux-based networked attached storage devices for the consumer/SOHO market..."

Virtually Speaking: FalconStor, Virtual Iron Eye Virtual Storage
(Jan 16, 2008, 22:00 UTC) (5371 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: "Virtual Iron strolled further down the path on its virtual storage roadmap this week with the announcement that it was joining forces with FalconStor Software to deliver a number of storage-centric virtualization capabilities...."

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