Linux Top 5: Heads Up for the Linux Desktop LinuxPlanet: It's beginning to look a whole lot like 2012 will be the year of the Linux Desktop on the Linux Planet. Well, if not the year, then at least this past week, which saw tremendous activity on desktop efforts new and old. (Feb 1, 2012)
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Do You Want Your OwnCloud? (Dec 16, 2011, 23:02 UTC) (5812 reads)
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(feedback) InfoStor: "Unlike DropBox, which only has a cloud service, OwnCloud is all about enabling users to build their own cloud storage, independent of a specific cloud vendor."
10 Enterprise Cloud Storage Options (Nov 2, 2011, 21:04 UTC) (4148 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "Even the most anti-cloud naysayer will agree that the cloud is an excellent choice as a disaster recovery (DR) solution."
Who Will Lead Us Out of Storage Limbo? (Oct 21, 2011, 20:02 UTC) (3097 reads)
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(feedback) EnterpriseStorageForum: "Does the United States lead the world in storage because we have the requirements that require innovation?"
Storage Security, the Last Line of Defense (Aug 10, 2011, 18:02 UTC) (3698 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "The answer in my opinion is SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) and MLS (multi-level security). The history of proprietary security enhanced operating systems is a sordid one."
Netatalk returns to open source (Aug 2, 2011, 01:03 UTC) (3664 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "NetAFP, the Netatalk developers, have announced that they are to resume open development of Netatalk and have updated the project's git repository with the latest source."
The big deal about big data (Jul 20, 2011, 21:07 UTC) (2992 reads)
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(feedback) GCN: "BI This Week asked thought leader and evangelist David Loshin, president of Knowledge Integrity, to explain what sorts of issues arise around big data and how frameworks such as Hadoop purport to address them."
Should You Move Your MySQL Database to the Cloud? (May 20, 2011, 11:01 UTC) (4544 reads)
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(feedback) DataBase Journal: "ust when you thought that you understood the term Web 2.0, along comes this Cloud thing. Do you know what that's all about? Do you care? What does that have to do with your MySQL database?"
SECURITY: Discover Rootkits With Unhide (May 18, 2011, 15:03 UTC) (5749 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "If you've ever encountered a rootkit, you know the symptoms: suddenly a box is sluggish or sending out gobs of network traffic, but running top and ps aux show nothing that should be the culprit. One quick and dirty way to turn up the offending processes is to use the unhide utility or its Ruby counterpart unhide.rb. It's a helpful tool to have around for Linux server management."
NetApp threatens Coraid over sales of open-source ZFS technology (Jul 6, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (7981 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Storage startup Coraid may face legal action from NetApp if the company does not cease plans to sell the Coraid EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliance based on the open-source Zettabyte File System (ZFS)."
Why Enterprise Tape Can't Get No Respect (Jun 18, 2010, 15:07 UTC) (6557 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "I had to think long and hard for reasons why sites would not use both tape types, and I came up with two reasons: library support for enterprise tape drives, and a lack of standards for enterprise tape."
Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny (Jun 17, 2010, 14:18 UTC) (8325 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "Amanda is an open source client/server solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the backup server, backup definitions are located on the servers but exclusion lists are located on the client."
HowTo: Speed Up Linux Software Raid Building And Re-syncing (Jun 17, 2010, 07:32 UTC) (9216 reads)
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(feedback) nixCraft: "It is no secret that I am a pretty big fan of excellent Linux Software RAID. Creating, assembling and rebuilding small array is fine. But, things started to get nasty when you try to rebuild or resync large size array."
Creating a NAS Box Using OpenFiler (Jun 17, 2010, 03:28 UTC) (9873 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "In a recent walkthru we outlined the steps for taking an existing server and converting it into a NAS box. This article takes examines an alternative: a dedicated NAS distribution called OpenFiler that allows you to very simply create a stand-alone NAS box that can be administered over the web."
Choosing the Right Solid State Drive for Your Storage Network (Apr 13, 2010, 21:02 UTC) (6811 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Choosing the right solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise storage networking environment is a critical decision — and equally critical is making sure you have the right controller to get the most out of the pricey drives."
Webopedia Terms of the Day: Storage Networking Versus Storage Management (Mar 9, 2010, 10:36 UTC) (8021 reads)
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(feedback) Webopedia: "The number of storage-related IT phrases and lingo grows by leaps and bounds — on a seemingly daily basis. For example, there is storage area network, storage consolidation, storage optimization, and storage virtualization, to name but a few of the popular storage trends. To get you started on the path to storage enlightenment we compare two of the most recently added storage terms on Webopedia."
Choosing the Right Solid State Drive for Your Storage Network (Mar 9, 2010, 01:34 UTC) (5977 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Choosing the right solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise storage networking environment is a critical decision — and equally critical is making sure you have the right controller to get the most out of the pricey drives."
POSIX IO Must Die! (Mar 3, 2010, 18:32 UTC) (10026 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "But as the world of storage evolves with greatly increasing capacities and greatly increasing performance, it is time for POSIX IO to evolve or die."
Terabytes of Storage for Pennies a Gigabyte
(Sep 11, 2009, 06:42 UTC) (10877 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "One online backup provider took a hard look at data storage costs and decided to build its own storage servers for just pennies a gigabyte. Backblaze's solution — a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at a cost of $7,867, or a little more than 11 cents a gigabyte."
Configure Bacula for Open Source Backups (Jun 26, 2009, 18:47 UTC) (9540 reads)
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(feedback) EnterpriseStorageForum: "Since we covered installation and a very basic initial run the last time we looked at Bacula, let's look at some of the more specific configuration options and capabilities this time."
Linux-Powered Enterprise Storage: Openfiler (Jun 25, 2009, 19:48 UTC) (9954 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "One network storage software vendor, Openfiler, never needed to be convinced of the benefits of offering enterprises an open source network storage operating system."
Falling 10GbE Prices Spell Doom for Fibre Channel (Jun 18, 2009, 21:33 UTC) (9154 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "I have been tracking the prices of 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) for more than a year, and just recently I have started to see what I have been expecting: Dramatic price drops in 10 GbE."
Oracle, Emulex Unite to Fight Data Corruption (Dec 3, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (7899 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Oracle announced today that it is contributing block I/O data integrity infrastructure code to Linux, which has been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel."
Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB (Nov 13, 2008, 09:03 UTC) (9351 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "In this article we are looking at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB under Ubuntu Linux."
Using LinuxDefender Live to Rescue Your Windows NTFS Drive (Sep 24, 2008, 14:02 UTC) (11988 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Did I actually mention Windows and NTFS in the title of this post? It's a good thing I managed to squeeze a little Linux in there or I'd commit myself to the nearest convalescent home immediately."
The Enterprise and Open-Source Storage (Jun 27, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (10551 reads)
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(feedback) Storage Soup: "...I've also heard similar withering talk about Sun's open storage in particular, and can only imagine Sun's open-source push is making this topic timely..."
Remote Backups for Linux and BSD (Jun 2, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (12045 reads)
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(feedback) Raiden's Realm: "Backups are an important element of system maintenance on any system, and should be, at least in my opinion, mandatory for all users to perform regularly..."
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future? (May 31, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (20137 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "My article three weeks ago on Linux file systems set off a firestorm unlike any other I've written in the decade I've been writing on storage and technology issues..."
Online Storage with Wuala (May 27, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (10755 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "At it's most basic level, Wuala is an online storage service. Like other services it aims to allow you to access your files from anywhere, even if your home or office computer is turned off..."
Recover a MySQL Table with Zmanda Recovery Manager (May 13, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (10219 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "If somebody accidentally drops a critical table in MySQL, the application no longer works. The solution to this problem is to utilize the (open source) Zmanda Recovery Manager..."
Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For (May 12, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (21420 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Linux file systems have a number of limitations that make them a poor choice for large and high-performance computing environments..."
