I've set up quite a few file servers using Linux in my day, and although it's not particularly difficult, I've often thought that there should be a better way to do it. The folks at the OpenFiler ...

After hanging out in some of the ZFS, NAS, etc. threads lately, I've finally gotten around to playing with some new NAS/SAN packages at home lately, and just wondering if the speeds I'm seeing are ...

Have an Openfiler 2.3 machine presenting a 2 disk soft RAID0 array as NFS to 4 ESX3i machines which use it as VM storage. That setup has been running for over a year now I guess (maybe longer) without ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Even in this cloud-centric world, there remain good reasons to own and run a physical server out of your office (or even home). Which server? That depends entirely on what you'll be using it for. Read ...

The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took ...

Earlier this year we tested Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Now we’re reviewing software-based NAS that you can load onto your own equipment — whether it’s a PC, server, virtual machine, or ...

The phrase "cloud-based computing" has gotten a lot of hype over the past few years. Consumers have been pummeled with the idea that if their data is not safe in some cloud, then it's on the brink of ...

Software-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) is perfect for the do-it-yourselfer who doesn’t want to buy a pre-packaged appliance. With software-based NAS, you load the software onto the device of ...

How abot building a storage cluster, but using a different software called Openfiler. It's a very powerful storage software that can be used for building both a NAS or a SAN. Not only that, but we ...