Posts Tagged ‘iSCSI’

Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part III

Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part III
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 In this post, we will discuss file layout, formats and protocols available on the NS4600. ...
August 9th, 2010 | Personal Storage, Reviews | Read More

Hardware Review: Drobo Elite – Part I

Hardware Review: Drobo Elite – Part I
Drobo Elite - Rear View This post is the first in a series covering the DroboElite SMB storage device from Data Robotics Inc. The DroboElite is the most fully featured storage array in the Data Robotics range of devices.  Regular readers will know I’ve posted frequently on these devices, from...
June 2nd, 2010 | Featured, Reviews | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Violin Memory Inc Release New All-SSD Array

Enterprise Computing: Violin Memory Inc Release New All-SSD Array
I’m not a fan of making press releases on behalf of other companies however once in a while, a news item catches my interest.  So it is with the announcement of the Violin Memory Inc. 3200 series of all-memory storage arrays.  Why are these interesting?  Because I think they are moving and...
May 26th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is 2010 The Year for iSCSI or FCoE? Place Your Bets!

Enterprise Computing: Is 2010 The Year for iSCSI or FCoE? Place Your Bets!
It’s pretty traditional to start the year looking at what will be prevalent in the coming 12 months.  In this opinion article, I will discuss whether we’ll see the prevalence of iSCSI or FCoE and what we can expect, looking back this time in 2011. History and Background on iSCSI iSCSI as...
January 11th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Virtualisation: Virtualising MY SOHO Infrastructure

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...
December 2nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is iSCSI The New Home Protocol?

I’d like to think I’ve visited a lot of customer sites over the years.  Admittedly most of these are “enterprise” class with multi-terabyte if not petabyte quantities of storage.  None of those customers have ever bothered deploying iSCSI as their storage protocol.  Invariably...
November 26th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT, Personal Storage | Read More

Review: StarWind Enterprise Server – Part II

This is the second of a series of posts reviewing the StarWind Enterprise Server iSCSI software target.  The posts relate to version 4 of the product.  Previous post(s) can be found at: Review: StarWind Enterprise Server – Part I In the first post of this review, I explained how StarWind’s...
October 28th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More

Cloud Computing: Block-Based Storage

A while back, I discussed speculation from EMC around Emulex’s proposed cloud-block storage appliance, E3s (Enterprise Elastic Storage).  With my current focus on Cloud Storage, I thought it would be good to delve a bit deeper into some of the aspects of why block-based cloud computing could...
October 8th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Personal Computing: DroboPro – Drobo Grows Up

There’s a new Drobo out!   The Drobo range has been expanded with the release of the DroboPro, an 8-drive big brother to the Drobo “classic”.  The new model is being touted as a “business class storage array” and looks very interesting for the basic price tag of $1299...
April 7th, 2009 | Personal Storage | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Cisco, IBM, Sun & EMC – A Busy Week

It’s certainly been a busy week in the world of enterprise computing. First, Cisco announced their Unified Computing System – blade servers to you and me. UCS integrates blade servers with management functionality and the Unified Fabric.  What’s interesting is that Fibre Channel gets...
March 19th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More
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