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Isilon one million, the fastest Scale Out NAS

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

-140 Isilon S200 Nodes. -One Volume. -One File System. -One Million+ IOPS for the SPECsfs 2008 CIFS and SPECsfs 2008 NFS Benchmarks. But first a proof point. Unlike many of it’s competitors Isilon aggregates system resources in every node to …

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Gmail and cloud computing data integrity

Posted on February 28, 2011 by admin

Chances are everyone has a Gmail account today, whether they use it or not the popularity of Gmail has gone from invitation only 10 years ago to free open registration and use today. Popularity basis of Gmail is ranked next …

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Posted in Hardware, Open Source, Servers, Software, Storage, Virtualization

Cloud and thin clients, the past is future

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Cloud – repurpose your old machine with Jolicloud 1.1, download. Recycle any computer with a useable lightweight web operating system. For those that are waiting to try out Google chrome OS, this is the product available. While there are no …

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Storage – Which is more reliable?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

In a recent article published today over at Datacenterknowledge.com analysts approached the question: Which storage drives are the most reliable, SSD (Solid-State-Drive) or Hard Drives (SATA/SAS) although there are more choices than SATA/SAS current industry is widely using what we …

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Intel 50 Gbps communication laser beams

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Nicholas O'Neil

News this week is that Intel announced an optical connection that can move data over longer distances and many times faster than the technology already in place. The claims are 50 gigabits per second and that is the kind of …

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Posted on October 28, 2010 by Nicholas O'Neil

Upgrading OS Boot Partition (C: Drive) from X (500GB) to Y (1TB). It is a true success story when a machine has reached a level of operation where its only increase in hardware is the local drive capacity. When mentioned, …

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