Storage on a budget: GlusterFS shines in open source storage test

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	Storage on a budget: GlusterFS shines in open source storage test One alternative to buying expensive storage-area networks or other hardware-based dedicated storage is to deploy open source storage software on existing server hardware. For this test, we evaluated three such open source storage products, GlusterFS 3.3, Ceph 0.72 and Apache Hadoop 2.2.0. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Simplify and Consolidate Data Protection for Better Results Learn how IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center simplifies user experience and speeds problem resolution. Read Now In this Issue SanDisk unleashes world's first 128GB microSD card Lacie packs 25TB of storage in new RAID product Three essential steps to a software defined data center Microsoft kills SkyDrive, launches OneDrive Open-Xchange adds cloud storage to its app suite Google Easter egg leads to story behind 'blink' tag Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: IBM Take Your Social Business Relationships to the Next Level This IBM Redguide publication provides information about IBM Social Business and includes details about the business need and the value of transformation to a social business. Learn More. SanDisk unleashes world's first 128GB microSD card Almost 10 years after the microSD card format was introduced with 2GB of capacity, SanDisk has unveiled a new model of the popular removable storage card with more than 60 times that original storage capacity. Read More   Lacie packs 25TB of storage in new RAID product LaCie has increased the storage capacity of its 5big external storage product to 25TB. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell Software   NSA Series Data Sheet Learn how your organization can be both secure and productive without compromising network performance. Dell's SonicWALL™ NSA Series next-generation firewalls utilize the latest multi-core hardware design and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) technology, to protect your network from internal and external attacks. Read now! Three essential steps to a software defined data center Imagine this in your data center: A swath of compute, networking and storage hardware from a variety of different vendors that are all controlled not individually but by software that overlays the entire operation. Read More   Microsoft kills SkyDrive, launches OneDrive Three weeks after announcing OneDrive as the new label for SkyDrive, Microsoft today activated the renamed storage service, and offered some new incentives that give customers more space. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Attachmate A Business-Driven Approach to Legacy Modernization Learn how to get rapid service enablement via small, orchestrated steps. This paper discusses both new and traditional approaches to legacy modernization, while highlighting a service-enablement strategy that's fast and practical, with notable ROI potential. Learn More. Open-Xchange adds cloud storage to its app suite Collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange added cloud storage to its offerings to allow users to sync files, folders, documents and pictures. Read More   Google Easter egg leads to story behind 'blink' tag A new Easter egg from the merry pranksters at Google performs an appropriate demonstration for anyone who searches on the word blink plus the acronym html. Read More   Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive Read More   Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive Read More
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