Oops! I didn't do any capacity planning for SharePoint Oct 6, 2009
It's crucial to have knowledge of the different capacity limitations of your Windows file system, Active Directory. Net framework, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. (SearchWindows2000.com)
Cloudera Intros Hadoop Management Tools Oct 5, 2009
It allows an application workload to be spread over clusters of commodity hardware, and also includes a distributed file system. But although the technology is "at its best" when data volumes get into multiple terabytes, Hadoop has relevance for a wide variety of companies, according to Olson. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Solving Linux server hangs stemming from kernel issues Sep 26, 2009
In the next article in this series, you'll learn how to handle severe problems with your file system. Rate this Tip. (Search Enterprise Linux)
Data Storage Startups Focus on Cost Sep 25, 2009
has developed a clustered file system that runs on commodity hardware and is aimed at Internet-facing applications that process billions of small files. MaxiScale's FLEX platform optimizes small file performance to handle the majority of files uploaded, accessed and downloaded on the Web. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Enterprise 2.0 Brings Knowledge Management to the Forefront Sep 23, 2009
"Today, organizations are far more dispersed then before. There is not always access to the file system, but browser access is nearly universal. In addition, often information sharing and project collaboration is not only within a single company. Today's tools need to enable internal users as well as include external participants," he says. Go to page. (IntranetJournal)
Who's Hot in the Data Storage Market Sep 12, 2009
"Nexenta has a scalable file system that works on any commodity storage. They have several customers that have implemented the product.". Further, he's picking Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) to stay strong, as it has a robust enough business model to withstand the difficult spending environment. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Microsoft Patches FTP Hole in IIS Sep 12, 2009
The workaround entails an administrator changing file system permissions so that FTP users are not allowed to create new directories or write to FTP directories as anonymous users. The down side is that users will not have access to FTP until a patch is released. (eSecurityPlanet)
Terabytes of Storage for Pennies a Gigabyte Sep 11, 2009
The pods boot 64-bit Debian 4 Linux and the JFS file system ... On top of that is the JFS file system, "and the only access we then allow to this totally self-contained storage building block is through HTTPS running custom Backblaze application layer logic in Apache Tomcat 5.5," Nufire wrote. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Dell Does the NAS Limbo Sep 10, 2009
The NX300 includes single instance storage, or , for eliminating duplicate data and saving on storage space, and a distributed file system for improved data availability. It supports Dell's OpenManage systems management for remote management, snapshots and replication. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
The Linux Foundation's grand new ambitions for Linux Sep 5, 2009
The ext4 file system, which updates the default Linux file system, also was cited. Version 4 is a higher performance file system with features database users have asked for, said Ted Ts'o, chief technology officer at the Linux Foundation ... "In general, it just allows for bigger file systems and better performance," Ts'o said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
The Safest Way to Protect Sensitive Computing Files Sep 4, 2009
The exception is the MBR and probably some internal to the file system. Being dependent on a software application to boot up your computer just adds more sectors to the list that can't fail. (eSecurityPlanet)
Build a Wi-Fi HotSpot: Install DD-WRT (X86) On a PC Sep 2, 2009
Journaling Flash File System (jffs). Normally this would let you store files directly on the router, such as for NoCatSplash hotspot captive portal pages and other custom configuration. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Enterprise Technologies Will Change the Consumer PC Market Aug 29, 2009
The real number when you add or communications protocols and file system overhead is more like 30 MB/sec for write and maybe 50 MB/sec for read. So at best this current crop of NAS boxes is much slower than disk drives, between one-half and one-third the performance of current disk drive technology. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Speculation Abounds as Sun-Oracle Wedding Day Nears Aug 28, 2009
Sun, of course, has a wide range of storage and file system technologies in its toolkit ... These file systems include a local file system (ZFS), an enterprise-class scalable file system (QFS), a hierarchical storage management system (Sam) and a scalable high-performance parallel file system (Lustre) ... "Sun has a complete solution that allows the code for the file systems and the OS to be open, allowing for a community to develop around the technologies," said Jeff Layton, a Linux storage and... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Sharp to Introduce New Mobile Internet Tool; Provides Internet Access and Works as an Electronic Dictionary and e-Book Aug 27, 2009
(9) Includes data area for file system management. Therefore, the capacity that can actually be verified will vary. (JCN Network, Japan)
NAS clusters for virtualized environments Aug 27, 2009
For instance, LSI Corp. acquired NAS vendor ONStor Inc. In July, Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. acquired Ibrix Inc., a provider of massively scalable NAS. Two years earlier, HP acquired cluster file system vendor PolyServe Inc. ... If you want NAS scalability, "you need a global clustered file system that can access and share files from multiple NAS filers," Schulz added. (Search Storage)
EMC, NetApp Embrace Virtual Data Centers Aug 26, 2009
0 combines the virtualization, multi-tenancy and data protection features of ONTAP 7G with the clustered file system capabilities of ONTAP GX. The new OS will be available as a download next month and generally available by the end of the year, and it's free for current users. NetApp views Data ONTAP 8 as central to its vision of a. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Storage Basics: How WAN Optimization Works Aug 21, 2009
This is particularly true when dealing with "chatty" protocols like Common Internet File System. (and other CIFS implementations like Samba on Linux) are frequently used when remote disks are browsed and files are transferred across a WAN, but the protocol was never really intended for use over high latency links. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Archiving data to cloud storage: How to choose the right cloud storage provider Aug 20, 2009
By default, most archiving applications support standard file system interfaces (CIFS/NFS); many also support APIs for the EMC Centera. However, archiving data to cloud storage requires them to support new APIs like Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). (Search Storage)
Red Hat Expands Partner Program to Juice Reseller Business Aug 18, 2009
To qualify for the infrastructure specialization, partners must have proven expertise in RHEL Advanced Platform, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat MRG, and have at least two Channel Sales Certified employees on staff and one Red Hat Certified Technician, the company said. The middleware specialization is for partners who specialize in building projects on JBoss Enterprise Middleware. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Storage Basics: Clustered File Systems Aug 18, 2009
Your choice of storage architecture as well as file system is critical, as most have severe limitations that require careful design workarounds. In this article we will cover a few common physical storage configurations, as well as clustered and distributed file system options ... Some readers may wish to configure a cluster of servers that simply have concurrent access to the same file system, while others may want to replicate storage and provide both concurrent access and redundancy. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Jail Housing Agreement Okayed Aug 13, 2009
They (Kerr County) have initiated a direct file system where they have attorneys on standby and can make deals on behalf of the district attorney, Gillespie County Sheriff Buddy Mills said. They just started using it and that s why some of their numbers are down on the felons. (Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post, TX)
How to fix Linux MBR partition tables Aug 12, 2009
You may have lost the complete partition table, or you may have a problem with the file system on a partition. Here, you'll learn how to recover the partition table. (Search Enterprise Linux)
The best free open source software for Windows Aug 8, 2009
And for the truly paranoid among us, TrueCrypt provides the option of creating a second, decoy file system volume that exists in parallel with your actual primary volume. That way, if youre ever forced to decrypt your volume under duress -- for example, at a security checkpoint or to satisfy the demands of some malfeasant character -- you can enter the decoy password and present them with the bogus volume, leaving them none the wiser. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
OpenTV Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results Aug 7, 2009
OpenTV announced that its Personal Video Recording (PVR) streaming file system was reported as one of the best PVR file systems available today by Seagate Technology, a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disk drives and storage solutions. OpenTV announced that its next generation advertising campaign management product, EclipsePlus, was selected by Time Warner Cable to manage the cable operators advertising sales operations across all of its regional operating... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Buttering Up Linux File Systems Aug 6, 2009
The last couple of years have seen a surge in file system development ... Quantum (NYSE: QTM), Panasas, IBM (NYSE: HPQ), HP (NYSE: HPQ), NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) have all boosted their file system development efforts ... Not surprisingly, all this development effort has stimulated work in open source communities to come up with higher performance file systems for Linux. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines Aug 5, 2009
"The root file system lives out in Random Access Memory," Rudish said. For the virtualization, the system uses a hypervisor built into the Linux kernel, called , which was developed by the research arm of IBM. Although it is still in the development stage, Sandia chose Lguest because it is "very fast and very lightweight," Minnich said. (FCW.com)
Toshiba to Launch World's First 64GB SDXC Card Aug 4, 2009
(2) SDXC Memory Cards are interoperable only with an SDXC host device, which implements the exFAT file system, and do not work with existing SD and SDHC host devices. (3) As of August 4, 2009. (PR Newswire)
LSI Reveals More of NAS Plans Jul 31, 2009
LSI bought it for the file system that LSI can incorporate in their own systems. The trend is to move to multi-protocol systems at least for mid- and entry systems. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
HP's Ibrix Buy Cools NetApp Speculation Jul 30, 2009
"Some customers like PolyServe, some like Ibrix, some like other file systems for use in different environments and applications, thus it is a brilliant move by HP to pick up the software and make it available for deployment on their various servers and server/storage combos like the ExDS9000," he added ... Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers agreed that the move "could be viewed as a factor that lifts some sentiment that HP would look to potentially acquire other software companies including... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
SSDs, pNFS Will Test RAID Controller Design Jul 25, 2009
This may have been true for many applications and file system allocation methodologies in the recent past, but with new file system allocation methods, pNFS and most importantly SSDs, the world as we know it is changing fast ... Flash-based SSDs, file system design changes and NFSv4 ... Many file system vendors are realizing that more and more environments have a bi-modal distribution of file sizes. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Open source Hive: Large-scale, distributed data processing made easy Jul 24, 2009
Employing Hadoop's distributed file system (HDFS) as data storage, Hive inherits all of Hadoop's fault tolerance, scalability, and adeptness with huge data sets ... It is a write-once, read-often-and-sequentially file system ... This illusion becomes apparent when you export data into a Hive table from a file stored in a standard Linux file system. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
NTU unveils green and fastest supercomputer in ASEAN in collaboration with leading IT giants Jul 24, 2009
IBM's full suite of HPC software will also be used to manage the full cluster, including IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS), a workhorse file system that powers many of the world's largest supercomputer sites. Performance in the NTU's HPC system is further boosted by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series which offers energy-efficiency features and more than three times the memory bandwidth than the dual-socket architecture. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Solid State Drives Preparing to Dominate Jul 23, 2009
5" Solid State Drive reduced the time required to boot Ubuntu 8.04 to 18 seconds on a test system, compared to the 32 seconds required to boot the operating system using a fast SATA II hard drive on the same system. (This is not intended to be a rigorous test but goes some way to illustrating the significant improvements in read times that an SSD can offer.) The high read speeds that SSDs offer make them very attractive for use with certain applications such as web servers and some databases... (Datamation)
Soon, e-data that self-destructs Jul 22, 2009
To make keys erode, or timeout, Vanish takes advantage of the structure of a peer-to-peer file system. Such networks are based on millions of personal computers whose internet addresses change as they come and go from the network. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
School Supply Shopping for College ... Jul 15, 2009
Students can create a simple file system with manila folders, hanging folders, and a file drawer (if this isn't available, try using an upside down milk crate). For papers that need to be handy, a bulletin board is very useful. (Suite101.com)
Rescue Your Data Using VistaPE Jul 15, 2009
In the old days you could use a boot disk to access the hard drive (HD) and backup your data before performing the recovery, but with Vista s file system, this isn t an option ... At least a 1GB USB Flash Drive (although the larger the better) formatted with either NTFS (recommended) or the FAT32 file system ... You should have administration privileges on this computer and the HD should be formatted with the NTFS file system. (SmallBusinessComputing)
How to Set Up a Classroom Jul 11, 2009
Have a tray or file system ready to keep the lesson plans and materials in until they are needed. The first week of school may be tiring, so having all the plans ready ahead of time will ease the burden on the new teacher. (Suite101.com)
Taking a Second Look at Apple Xserve Jul 10, 2009
Additionally, the company has updated its file system with the release of Xsan 2. This is clustered file system software that helps to create shared storage environments used in IT and video editing. (Datamation)
How Google Chrome OS Could Beat Windows Jul 10, 2009
Id expect the file system to resemble Gmail, using labels instead of folders. Id expect eye-candy to be at a minimum and for performance to be highly optimized. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
EARTHWEBNEWS.COM Jul 5, 2009
June 10, 2009] Yahoo releases its latest implementation of the Hadoop open source distributed file system to developers. June 10, 2009] New Linux kernel adds new file systems and speed. (IntranetJournal)
Burn CDs in XP with CDBurnerXP Pro Jul 5, 2009
The window on the right is your local file system. To add files and folders to the compilation, click and drag them from the right-hand window to the ISO Image window. (TechRepublic)
Moblin: a First Look at Intel's Open-Source OS Jul 3, 2009
They can even abandon the file system concept. Instead, they can create an operating system quite simply geared-up for online activities. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
IBM, NetApp Take on Virtual I/O Bottlenecks Jul 2, 2009
BlueArc and Panasas primarily leverage the evolving architecture of the Parallel Network File System (), which allows clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel. NetApp's secret sauce is something called a performance acceleration module (PAM). (EnterpriseStorageForum)
File Organizing Jun 30, 2009
How to Categorize a File System ... File systems need to be sectioned by category, and not alphabetically as the standard used to be. (Suite101.com)
SGI Returns with New Data Storage Arrays Jun 30, 2009
None of it is proprietary SGI technology, all industry-standard interfaces, so no special SGI file system is needed. It will work with any servers or operating system. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Achieving Robust Clustered Storage with Linux and GFS Jun 25, 2009
We often we need to share file systems via or other mechanisms to provide a central location for the data ... Using GFS, the free clustered file system in Linux, you can create a truly robust cluster that does not depend on other servers ... Conceptually, a clustered file system allows multiple operating systems to mount the same file system and write to it at the same time. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Adaptec Introduces Series 5Z RAID Controllers With First Maintenance Free, Flash-Based Cached Data Protection for On-Demand Cloud Computing Data Centers Jun 24, 2009
"Adaptec's new Series 5Z RAID Controllers with Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection eliminate the battery from this equation without compromising cache protection or performance. It provides significant new design flexibility for our conventional Linux file servers and distributed file system building blocks used in high performance scalable storage solutions. This is a real win-win-win for customers, the environment and Penguin.". Silicon Mechanics (). (PR Newswire)
SGI Targets Mid-Market With New Storage Play Jun 24, 2009
None of it is proprietary SGI stew, like its interconnect architecture, it's all industry standard interfaces, no special SGI file system needed. It will work with any servers or operating system. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Could Opera Unite Be a Botmaster's Best Friend? Jun 23, 2009
Opera it runs Unite within a "sandboxed" environment, which should make it hard for people to jump from Unite into other parts of the PC's file system, but the company doesn't say what steps it's taking to prevent hacked PCs from misusing the service. A company representative couldn't immediately comment for this report on Friday. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Data Storage Sales Hit the Skids Jun 19, 2009
Device management, replication, and infrastructure sales fell, while file system and management sales grew, according to Laura DuBois, IDC's research director for Storage Software. Follow Enterprise Storage Forum on. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Fedora 11 Touts Faster Speed Jun 16, 2009
Fedora 11 also includes the new Ext4 file system which offers better performance and the ability to handle larger file sizes. New for device identification and management are also a key part of the Fedora 11 release. (Datamation)
Is Vista the Safest OS for Business? Jun 16, 2009
Other included features are likely to be the ability to restart or replace faulty components on the fly during execution and an advanced, fault-tolerant file system. Tanenbaum's Minix 3 has just 5,000 lines of kernel code, compared to about 5 million in the Windows kernel and somewhat less than that in the Linux kernel. (Datamation)
New Linux Kernel Offers List of Improvements Jun 16, 2009
30 with the NILFS2 filesystem (short for "New Implementation of a Log-structured File System"). "NILFS is a new implementation of a log-structured file system (LFS) supporting continuous snapshotting," according to the. (Datamation)
Get Your Free Networked Storage Jun 16, 2009
"And the reason they're doing that is because there is all this stuff in place, based on the Linux kernel, and these big name vendors IBM, NEC, Oracle with its BTRFS file system, Sun Microsystems with OpenSolaris have a vested interest in making sure that their products continue to work in those enterprises. So they've completely changed their philosophy. "They're, like, if you can't beat them, then join them. " The big difference between the big-name vendors' network storage operating systems... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Protocols for cloud services - Part 2 Jun 16, 2009
The essential parts of Hadoop are the file system and the job processing system. Hadoop Distributed File System The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is far from what your desktop operating system uses ... It is a "distributed" system that achieves fault tolerance on cheap commodity hardware, typically running Linux, by extensive duplication and high throughput by choosing not to provide many typical file system functions. (Search Webservices)
Recovering your Linux server with a Knoppix rescue disk Jun 16, 2009
You have to mount all file systems on your server yourself -- assuming you can still mount them. The procedure that is described in this article helps you in fixing boot problems that are not caused by file system errors ... If your server's file systems have errors that prevent them from being mounted, the procedure described in this article will help you find a solution, but there may be additional steps required. (Search Enterprise Linux)
GAO: IRS halts development of Customer Account Data Engine Jun 6, 2009
Because CADE posts information daily, direct deposit refunds are issued one to five business days faster than with the Master File system, and paper checks are issued four to eight business days faster. CADE processed 30. (FCW.com)
File System Benchmarks Need to be Reformed Jun 6, 2009
I've found myself getting worked up lately about some of the file system benchmark information and tests that have been published. Vendors use these benchmarks to tout how well their file system did compared to brand X, but file system benchmarks can't be looked at in the same way that say, SPEC benchmarks can be looked at, as SPEC is designed so that vendors can't really skew the results ... The big problem with file system benchmarks is that they are just the opposite of SPEC benchmarks; there... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
new rev of OpenSolaris Jun 6, 2009
Support for Microsoft's CIFS file system has been added as a peer to ZFS. The move allows OpenSolaris to support Windows semantics for security, naming, and access rights, which allows transparent file use across Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating environments, Fowler said in Monday's announcement at CommunityOne, a Sun developer conference in San Francisco. Sun also added high-performance support of and Fibre Channel block protocols into the OpenSolaris kernel. (TechWeb)
Movimiento ATM & Perst Lite Embedded Database Help Workers Connect via Smartphone Jun 3, 2009
Perst Lite offers features including transactions, built-in full text search, multiple underlying storage modes (JSR-75 file system or Java ME's record management system) and support for many types of database index, all with a minimal code "footprint" and fast performance. McObject offers Perst Lite for. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps Jun 2, 2009
Hadoop was inspired by Google s MapReduce and Google File System papers. It s a top-level Apache project, being built and used by a community of contributors from all over the world. (Salon)
Sun Adds Solid State Drive Management to ZFS Jun 1, 2009
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has added the solid state drive () management technology from its popular "" data storage systems to the latest release of the open source ZFS file system ... 06, to be released today, includes a number of updates to the ZFS file system, including technology that automatically places certain workloads on flash, such as random writes and reads, that can benefit from the higher performance of SSDs ... " Solaris Gets CIFS, Block Storage Support Native support for... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Sun Gives Its Open Storage Line High Availability May 29, 2009
The new system uses the open source Solaris ZFS file system to create "a virtual storage pool to seamlessly optimize access to the different media types," Sun said, and optional write-optimized flash accelerators can boost the performance of write-oriented applications. The unified storage systems support , and protocols. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Micro Digital Announces Flash Logger Upgrade May 22, 2009
is pleased to announce enhancement of its smxFLog flash logger to permit multiple logs to be recorded and read back, thus making it more like a conventional file system. Costa Mesa, California (PRWEB) May 22, 2009 -- is pleased to announce enhancement of its smxFLog flash logger to permit multiple logs to be recorded and read back, thus making it more like a conventional file system ... FAT file systems are not good for logging data to flash because flash, unlike magnetic media, cannot be... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
