Both FreeNAS and OpenFiler offer solid options for open source NAS, with FreeNAS having a few advantages in regards to management and ease of use.
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Cloud storage firm tackles costs, latency and a surge of unstructured data with software-based approach.
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The company claims the first scale-out virtual NAS appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Open source startup is gearing up to build a high-availability Lustre file system distribution, but it's not a fork from Oracle.
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There are several open source technologies available for building low-cost – and in some cases no-cost – NAS servers.
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Storage startup Gluster has married open source software with commodity hardware to solve the problem of file system scalability.
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With the future of OpenSolaris under Oracle unclear, a new effort aims to deliver an alternative to the popular open source software.
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Backup appliances based on open source software have potential advantages over traditional backup software or in-house scripts.
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Several open source storage vendors have incorporated data deduplication into their solutions, with positive results and low price tags. Are they a match for proprietary solutions?
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The clustered file system will remain open source, but paid support for version 2.0 will require new hardware.
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Oracle revealed this week that it not only plans to keep Sun's disk storage business, but its tape business too.
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Is Oracle seeking to do away with OpenSolaris?
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Gluster uses its open source clustered file system and commodity hardware to create a scalable storage system for less than the cost of proprietary systems.
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There are some good reasons why Sun's open source ZFS file system is so popular.
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Nexenta and ParaScale are using open source software and commodity hardware to slash storage costs for enterprises.
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As part of Open-FCoE, Intel is leading an effort to make FCoE native to Linux and is literally giving away its code to accomplish that.
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Zmanda uses open-source backup software and Amazon S3 to offer cheaper backup for small businesses.
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One online backup provider that found a way to build its own storage servers on the cheap is sharing what it learned.
Tags : open source, open storage, storage hardware, Backblaze
Sun and Oracle have been silent as their merger nears approval, but pundits have been anything but quiet.
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Clustered file systems can give you an easy route to highly available storage. We outline some of the options.
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Bacula is a popular and robust open source backup solution. Learn
the basics of Bacula configuration with our simple guide.
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Clustered file systems can give your storage environment greater resilience. Using Linux GFS, we show you an example.
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The latest version of Sun's open source ZFS file system includes automated management of SSDs. And OpenSolaris gets new networking and virtualization features.
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Sun's latest Open Storage offering includes cluster and dual controller options for high availability.
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With commercial implementations and community projects on the rise, analysts nonetheless see barriers to widespread enterprise adoption of open source data storage technologies.
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While just a tiny part of a $13 billion company, Sun's Open Storage program exemplifies everything the company had hoped to achieve in its turnaround efforts.
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Sun's Open Storage program was its strongest business in the March quarter — just in time for Oracle to figure out what to do with the program.
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