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Archived OpenStorage Articles
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05 Apr 2012
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OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012 [25944]
22 - 24 MAY, 2012; 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM ; AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
The second-annual OpenStorage Summit will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Much like last year's EMEA User Conference, this year's event will feature a who's who in the OpenStorage industry participating in panels, case studies and technical vendor presentations.
Three Reasons Why You Should Attend
- In-depth look at OpenStorage See the future of OpenStorage through the eyes of industry leaders from Intel, Arista, Juniper, KT, Nexenta, and more.
- Nexenta Certification and Free Conference Attendees coming to get certified on Nexenta products will get free admission to OpenStorage Summit.
- Top-Class Speakers and Exhibitors
Location: Hotel Mercure Amsterdam aan de Amstel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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30 Mar 2012
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OpenStorage Product NexentaStor 3.1 Runner up in 'New Product of the Year category [25856]
Nexenta Most Improved Company of the Year
Nexenta Systems, a leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, has won "Most Improved Company of the Year" at the Network Computing Awards. It also was runner up in the "New Product of the Year" category with its flagship OpenStorage platform NexentaStor 3.1.
Now in its fifth year, the awards, which are hosted by the UKs Network Computing Magazine, were presented at a ceremony on 22nd March at Hotel Russell, London.The awards recognize the hardware, software, services, and the companies behind them, which have most impressed the readers of the UKs longest established computer networking publication.
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16 Mar 2012
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Two Dozen Papers and Links for the ZFSSA [25686]
Steve Tunstall Has Done the Legwork
There is an even two dozen papers and links for the ZFSSA conveniently collected in a single post by Steve Tunstall. For good measure he throws in a couple links dealing with ZFS in general rather than the ZFSSA that he nevertheless finds useful for the light they shed on how ZFS functions.
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05 Mar 2012
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How to Use FC Storage with Sun ZFS Appliance [25572]
Procedure Uses FC Initiator Stack in Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 OS
In his oracle.com post Andrew Ness provides a procedure for configuring Fibre Channel LUNs in Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and integrating them into an Oracle Solaris 10 or Oracle Solaris 11 environment. Ness demonstrates -- with code samples and screen shots -- how one can employ the browser user interface and the Fibre Channel initiator stack that comes with Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 to accomplish this configuration.
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24 Feb 2012
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Oracle Posts SPEC SFS Benchmark [25525]
Crushes Netapp Comparable
Oracle scored another triumph in its campaign to dominate OpenStorage with its SPC-1 benchmark result that was 2X faster at half the cost of NetApp. The systems involved were Oracle's 7320 and two NetApp systems, 3270 and 3160. Blogger Darius Zanganeh attributes this level of performance to Oracle's superior engineering and its use of the Hybrid Storage Pool in the ZFS Storage Appliance.
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09 Jan 2012
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Nexenta Trashes Win8 Storage Spaces [25232]
'Just Not Enterprise Class'
Microsoft's Storage Spaces may well be fine for storing family photos and other personal memorabilia but as an enterprise storage tool? Not so much, contends Nexenta CEO Evan Powell in The Register article by Chris Mellor, noting the absence of such features as double and triple parity RAID, the ability to snapshot and replicate data, and the cryptographic-strength 256 bit checksums of ZFS-based solutions found in NexentaStor, which provide end-to-end data integrity. In addition, Powell points out the 16 Terabyte (16 TB) limit in the capacity of Storage Spaces. "It just isn't enterprise class," Powell asserts.
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