I don’t talk about company acquisitions too often but I can’t let the purchase of BlueArc by HDS pass me by without adding my opinion. First of all, for those of you who don’t know, BlueArc sells NAS hardware which has been resold by HDS for some years under the HNAS brand. The hardware comes [...]
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server. Previous posts:
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part II Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part III
One essential feature in any home NAS [...]
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server. Previous posts:
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I
In the first post of this series, we discussed the basic hardware configuration. This post will look at connectivity and RAID configurations supported by the NS4600.
A quick glance [...]
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server.
Background
Promise Technology Inc have been manufacturing RAID controllers since 1988 and iSCSI storage systems since 2004. In 2007, the company released the first of the SmartStor devices, the NS4300, a fully-functioned home NAS storage array. That was followed [...]
I finally managed to attend a London CloudCamp last Thursday, which conveniently co-incided with a #storagebeers evening. For two hours of listening to the collective wisdom of the presenters and the “unpanel” we were offered free beer and food. Now free beer is good, however I’m not sure it’s good enough to make me want [...]
I’m in the process of migrating my existing physical infrastructure into a virtual environment. There’s nothing like “eating your own dog food” (there’s got to be a better expression than that) for testing out your beliefs on how technology should be implemented, so it’s only fitting I virtualise the IT infrastructure I rely on.
In [...]
Today Symantec are announcing their scalable NAS product called FileStore. This simple appliance claims to offer linear scaling for up to 2PB of storage per cluster, leveraging all the benefits of the Veritas storage products we’ve come to know and love over the years. But what chance has this [...]
I’ve had my Drobo for a few months now. For those of you not familiar with the technology, the Drobo is a storage device from a company called Data Robotics. Follow the link above to their website for full details.
I’d been looking for a decent home/home office storage device for some time. [...]
I just read a comment over at Zerowait regarding Netapp and proprietary hardware. It reminded me of something I was thinking about recently on the commoditisation of storage.
There’s nothing worse to my mind than a storage vendor who has no competition. Inevitably in some organisations that situation can exist when a [...]
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