Shift into gear Nov 18, 2009
The goal is to advance to the prestigious NFS Live World Tour. Along the way, you compete on a combination of real world tracks and ones created for the game across three continents. (The Palm Beach Post)
Why NAS Might Overtake SAN Storage Nov 17, 2009
The introduction of NFSv4 ... Up to now, between the performance limitations of NFS and Gigabit Ethernet speeds, it was not important for vendors to have scalable file systems ... If you combine NFSv4. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
HP Targets Small Businesses With Virtualization Bundles Nov 11, 2009
e., CIFS or NFS) and thereby eliminates the license fees required for backup to virtual tape libraries. StorageWorks D2D is also designed to allow you to backup 50 times more data through data deduplication. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Storage Networking: The Basics Oct 27, 2009
Most of this is because the performance of the communication protocols NFS and CIFS are not designed to stream data at high rates. A new version of NFS will likely become commonly available next year called , which we will touch on more in the next article. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Rev and win with NFS Shift! Oct 9, 2009
Rev and win with NFS Shift. Article By: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:43. (iAfrica.com)
IOMEGA Brings NAS to SOHO/SMB Oct 9, 2009
They are cheap and they are green, but the ix2-200 series sure pack some remarkable features, including device-to-device replication for business continuity and file recovery, iSCSI block-level access, RAID 1 configurations, Active Directory, NFS and Apple's Time Machine support and VMware certification for virtualization installations. Automatic configuration and features for the digital home. (HardwareCentral)
VMware Automates Disaster Recovery Oct 8, 2009
VMware parent company EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced broad support for the new offering across its data storage product line, including adapters for Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), Celerra Replicator with NFS and iSCSI support, MirrorView and RecoverPoint. Follow Enterprise Storage Forum on. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
GAME ROOM: Review: Need For Speed: Shift Oct 2, 2009
Identity Shift: Need for Speed: Shift represents a transformation for the NFS franchise. Gone are open-ended cities laced with dangerous highways, seedy underground street racing and cops willing to chase you all about. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Need for Speed Shift Sep 11, 2009
NFS Shift returns to the track-based racing of old (and ProStreet) rather than the open-world stuff seen in most of the modern titles ... And let me just say that you should get behind the wheel and not race from a third-person camera because the cockpit view is what makes NFS Shift stand out from the extremely competitive racing genre and come into its own. (IGN PC Games)
Cost of fighting Los Angeles fire rising Sep 10, 2009
The fire has burned 160,375 acres (about 64,951 hectares) and containment was still listed at 62 percent late Wednesday afternoon, the National Forest Service (NFS) said ... When you light a fire, you have to be able to control it and have it go where you want it to go," he said. The Station Fire raging in the Angeles National Forest since Aug. 25 is slightly more than 250 square miles (400 kilometers), which the NFS described as an area two-and-a-half times the size of Sacramento, capital of... (Xinhuanet, China)
Nearly $50 mln spent to fight Los Angeles wildfire Sep 8, 2009
As the fire was still raging in remote areas, the true overall cost of the largest blaze in Los Angeles County would be far greater, the National Forest Service (NFS) said. "We won't know the true costs until the fire's out, the heavy rains come and the roads are fixed," NFS Service information officer Nathan Judy said ... " Full accounting of wildfire costs includes impacts to watersheds, ecosystems, infrastructure, businesses, individuals, and local and national economies, according to the... (Xinhuanet, China)
Northwest Family Services establishes endowment Sep 3, 2009
Northwest Family Services recently finalized the formation of NFS Endowment, a 501 (C)3 foundation that will be able to carry the organization through lean times and keep it expanding during the good ... The Name NFS Endowment was selected and a three-person board selected Karen Koehn, Henry Bickerstaff and Betty Benson ... NFS receives funding for its operations from the Oklahoma Legislature. (Alva Review Courier, OK)
Services provided by Northwest Family Services Aug 29, 2009
NFS plans to conduct additional seminars using this curriculum in conjunction with area churches ... NFS has an office in the Waynoka Family Clinic, the Fairview and Laverne schools ... NFS has expanded its services into Harper and Beaver Counties. (Alva Review Courier, OK)
Enterprise Technologies Will Change the Consumer PC Market Aug 29, 2009
They are not fast enough to replace local disk drives yet and the latency is high, but with 10GbE, pNFS and faster, lower-latency PCIe buses, the game will change ... 10GbE speeds are around 400 MB/sec to 600 MB/sec for some vendors, including the NFS overhead. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Forest access a concernForest Service answers questions about plan for roads Aug 20, 2009
" and that is a total lie. Motorized users WILL loose access to 5,400 miles of Maintenance Level 1 roads (the smaller roads/trails we like to ride on) in early 2010. To me, that indicates that they are closed... I'm not sure what their definition of "Closed" is... Ask them for yourself, talk to the NFS Law Enforcement Officers, you can operate Motorized Vehicles on those very same roads today, but will face a heavy fine after the first of the year when they become CLOSED. What part of "We're not... (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
USFS again balks at climber permit Aug 6, 2009
ForestUser wrote on Aug 4, 2009 4:44 PM:" When will the NFS consider responsible, non extractive, low impact, commercial recreational use a good thing? It isnt just about timber, ore, and cattle. Revenue comes from others as well. ". wakeup park county wrote on Aug 4, 2009 1:30 PM:" Could the Shoshone Forest Service be any more disfunctional? Justthinkaboutit is correct, unless it has to do with horseback or logging, SFS won't even consider it. It's time this forrest steps outside it's "comfort... (Cody Enterprise, WY)
Buttering Up Linux File Systems Aug 6, 2009
And NFS is getting a major overhaul in the form of. Not surprisingly, all this development effort has stimulated work in open source communities to come up with higher performance file systems for Linux. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
SSDs, pNFS Will Test RAID Controller Design Jul 25, 2009
Add parallel NFS to the picture and the number of I/O requests per second won't matter if the controller has relatively poor streaming I/O. ... 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. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Need for Speed Shift Updated Impr... Jul 21, 2009
When the franchise had seemed to begin to lose its way in recent years, EA handed over the reins to Slightly Mad Studios, a studio formed by the core guys behind the great GTR racing series on the PC. The result is that what we've seen so far of Need for Speed Shift is the most realistic, engrossing and, most importantly, fun NFS title in quite some time. I had first seen the gameand then got an updated and more in-depth look at it at. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
1.9 Million Foreclosure Filings Reported on More Than 1.5 Million U.S. Properties in First Half of 2009 Jul 16, 2009
RealtyTrac's report incorporates documents filed in all three phases of foreclosure: Default -- Notice of Default (NOD) and Lis Pendens (LIS); Auction -- Notice of Trustee Sale and Notice of Foreclosure Sale (NTS and NFS); and Real Estate Owned, or REO properties (that have been foreclosed on and repurchased by a bank) ... Properties with Foreclosure Filings ----------------------------------- Rate State Rank Name NOD LIS NTS NFS REO ---- ------- --- --- --- --- --- -- U.S. 155,400 181,722... (PR Newswire)
Jackson's death, will provide lessons Jul 12, 2009
To meet those needs, Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. (NFS) today launched the newest version of its YourLife suite of life insurance products Nationwide YourLife Survivorship VUL a variable universal life product for couples who want a cost-effective way to insure both their lives, or if one person in the pair has a medical condition that could make getting individual coverage difficult. All protections and guarantees are subject to the claims-paying ability of the issuing life... (Fresno Bee -- Business)
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)
Sergei Gonchar Jul 1, 2009
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Public Information Notice: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2009 Article IV Consultation with the Republic of Croatia Jun 16, 2009
In months of following year's imports of goods and NFS 4. 4. (IMF News)
New Linux Kernel Offers List of Improvements Jun 16, 2009
Preliminary support for NFS 4. 1 () is also being included ahead of the final standard being ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force. (Datamation)
EA Live Blog Jun 2, 2009
(2:18:46 PM): Now they're showing a live gameplay demo of NFS: Shift ... Unveiling the new driver profile in NFS: Shift. (IGN PS2)
ATM trouble leaves users fuming May 20, 2009
Experts blamed a glitch in the National Financial Switch (NFS), which handles inter-bank funds transfer for ATM operations, for these faulty transactions and debits ... Industry officials said that though NFS had managed to seamlessly synchronize ATMs of all banks, a glitch in the system surfaced time and again, causing void transactions that were incorrectly recorded ... The NFS network covers 16,891 ATMs and is the largest-single network in the country covering ATMs of 27 banks. (India Times)
Microsoft Unveils Final Windows Storage Server May 8, 2009
And in something of a surprise, Foskett said "the cool remote administration feature explicitly supports Linux and Firefox, with a special Java version, which I'm sure was not easy to get approved alongside the ActiveX version for IE/Windows Plus." And Microsoft is also offering an open-source NFSv4 client. Asked if Windows Storage Server 2008 could be easily adapted for use in virtual server environments like VMware (NYSE: VMW), Foskett said it "could easily be used as a storage target for... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
BlackArmor NAS: A polished storage server with an open source heart May 7, 2009
BlackArmor boasts the now-expected features, including fully enabled drive trays for easy expansion (BlackArmor 420 comes with two drives, but four trays), print server (unidirectional), backup utilities, dynamic DNS, USB backup and drive mounts, and the now-standard NFS/CIFS/FTP trio ... Although NFS is supported, Seagate has not included NIS (Network Information Service) or Kerberos authentication ... All NFS security is by allowed IP address, which might explain why NFS is turned off by... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Mark Twain closes its caves May 5, 2009
Last week, U.S. Forest Service, Eastern Region Deputy Regional Forester Logan Lee signed an emergency closure order for all caves and mines on NFS lands in the Eastern Region. That area roughly ranges from Ohio to the East Coast and all the states south. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Brandon Moss Apr 30, 2009
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Court News April 29, 2009 Apr 28, 2009
4/16/09, Charles Nolan, 50, Prudenville, NFS check under 100, fined 353, 91 days probation. 4/23/09, Kevin Spehar, 46, Elmira, impeded traffic, fined 133. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Cache-A Announces New Prime-Cache Archive Appliance for Professional Video File-Based Workflows Apr 18, 2009
Capable of being deployed in any Operating System environment, including Windows, Mac OS and Unix, the Prime-Cache data tape deck features web page control over all operations and can mount Windows, Mac and Unix file systems (SMB, afp and NFS) as well as support FTP and Bonjour name discovery. Prime-Cache systems provide direct access to archived content from any platform with simultaneous networked multi-user access. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Iomega Adds Mid-Size Network Storage Apr 17, 2009
The VMware Ready Certification means the ix4-200r is certified as both NAS (NFS) and iSCSI storage VMware ESX server 3. In addition to the iSCSI support, the ix4-200r is pre-configured for RAID 5 but can also offers RAID 10 or single volume storage (JBOD). (SmallBusinessComputing)
Riquelme quits Argentina and blames Maradona Mar 12, 2009
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More specialty Linuxes to the rescue Feb 24, 2009
Additionally, you can configure quotas, which control user group consumption of disk resources; you can establish shares, which makes named file system locations accessible by SMB and NFS; and you can manage mirrors, backups, and snapshots. There's much more; consequently, OpenFiler's administration and management system requires some learning time. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Innovative Iomega Network Storage Appliances Now VMware Ready Certified; New Cost-Saving Virtualization Opportunities for Small Businesses Feb 24, 2009
Customers can utilize Iomega network storage devices as NFS Datastores upon which to start and build their VMware environments ... VMware users can take advantage of the NFS and CIFS file sharing attributes of the ix2 and ix4 - both devices are VMware Ready Certified as NFS storage - as well as other enterprise features such as support for Active Directory users and groups; email home; FTP, SNMP and NTP support; users and groups; quotas and jumbo frames. (PR Newswire)
Provisional PDF Feb 21, 2009
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Test Center: Sun's stellar NAS in a can Feb 20, 2009
OpenSolaris-based appliance supports NFS v3, NFS v4, CIFS, iSCSI, FTP, and HTTP file serving ... On the software side, the 7210 offers a wide range of file-serving protocols: NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, iSCSI, FTP, and HTTP. It supports onboard virus scanning; snapshots; cloning; compression; SNMPv3/v4; NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) backups; and CLI scripting in Perl, Python, Java, and more. (InfoWorld)
Autograph session Feb 18, 2009
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Foreclosure Activity Decreases 10 Percent in January According to RealtyTrac(R) U.S. Foreclosure Market Report Feb 12, 2009
RealtyTrac's report incorporates documents filed in all three phases of foreclosure: Default -- Notice of Default (NOD) and Lis Pendens (LIS); Auction -- Notice of Trustee Sale and Notice of Foreclosure Sale (NTS and NFS); and Real Estate Owned, or REO properties (that have been foreclosed on and repurchased by a bank) ... U.S. Foreclosure Market Data by State - Jan 2009 Properties with Foreclosure Filings Rate Rank State Name NOD LIS NTS NFS REO Total -- U.S. 46,681 52,435 80,986 27,520 66,777... (PR Newswire)
Facebook Friends Storage Vendors Feb 8, 2009
Facebook also uses NFS for videos, "because we have many machines that need to access the same data within the tier, and that was the most cost-effective and high-performance way to do it," said Nagwani, as well as Isilon's (NASDAQ: ISLN) clustered storage system. But Nagwani and his team are actively looking into other platforms, like the Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) Storage 7410 Unified Storage System, which can scale up to 576 TB.. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
