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Is Bill Gates’ New Website Really Running On Linux? TechCrunch: "Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates’ new site, The Gates Notes, was running on a Linux-powered server." Feb 1, 2010
Terabytes of Storage for Pennies a Gigabyte
(Sep 11, 2009, 06:42 UTC) (5400 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) (4430 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) (4556 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) (4701 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) (4147 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) (5084 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) (7057 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) (6484 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) (7958 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) (14005 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) (7577 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) (6975 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) (15611 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..."
Geek Sheet: Bare-Metal Backup and Recovery (May 8, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (11897 reads)
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(feedback) Between the Lines: "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job...?"
Indexing Offline CD-ROM Archives (May 8, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (6440 reads)
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(feedback) Free Software Magazine: "Suppose you've been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything...?"
Sun Pushes Open Source Storage (May 3, 2008, 16:00 UTC) (7521 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "The vendor contends that open source technology provides cheaper, more cost-effective storage infrastructures, just as open source efforts in the past led to cheaper server environments..."
Bacula: Backups That Don't Suck (Apr 24, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (10623 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Good systems administrators know that implementing a robust backup procedure is one of their most important duties..."
Gifts of Open Source (Apr 22, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (5842 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxWorld: "Combining 'Open Source' and 'storage' in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications..."
Benchmarking Linux Filesystems on Software RAID 1 (Apr 22, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (13066 reads)
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(feedback) Lone Wolves: "A couple of months ago I got a couple of wonderful birthday presents. My lovely geeky girlfriend got me two Western Digital 500 GB SATA 3.0 drives, which were promptly supplemented with a 3ware 9550XS 4-port hardware RAID card..."
Inspecting Disk IO Performance with fio (Apr 10, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (10284 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Storage performance has failed to keep up with that of other major components of computer systems. Hard disks have gotten larger, but their speed has not kept pace with the relative speed improvements in RAM and CPU technology..."
Linux Gains New Architecture Support (Mar 28, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (9181 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "Dozens of network-attached storage (NAS) servers and other consumer appliances are about to gain mainline kernel and Debian GNU/Linux support..."
Multipath Storage with Xen and DS4800 (Mar 12, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (7888 reads)
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(feedback) developerWorks: "Virtualization technology was part of the IBM mainframe decades before virtualization gained its current industry adoption..."
Manage a Linux RAID 10 Storage Server (Mar 5, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (11327 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Networking Planet: "Today we'll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in our RAID 10 array. We'll make it bigger, smaller, safely test failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure notifications..."
Create a Backup Server with Restore (Feb 21, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (11717 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Perhaps the number one reason why people neglect to back up their desktops is the lack of workable solution. It can be difficult to find a method configurable enough to suite everyone's needs..."
CLI Magic: Manage All Your Archives with atool (Feb 6, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (7286 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to handle many different archive formats and compression schemes using a single command-line interface..."
Virtually Speaking: FalconStor, Virtual Iron Eye Virtual Storage (Jan 16, 2008, 22:00 UTC) (5964 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "Virtual Iron strolled further down the path on its virtual storage roadmap this week with the announcement that it was joining forces with FalconStor Software to deliver a number of storage-centric virtualization capabilities...."
