Delphix is now shipping the first server that can create virtual copies of databases to run concurrently on disk. This opens up a whole new world for database sadministrators. – Servers, storage, routers, applications — even I/O — have been virtualized for data center systems and are now providing IT managers huge improvements in administration and production quality.
But not until startup Delphix officially emerged Sept. 14 at the DEMO Conference in Santa Clara, Calif…
Newcomer Nimble Storage marked an important day in its corporate life earlier this month when it announced two things: its own launch as a startup and the fact that it is shipping the industry’s first completely converged primary iSCSI storage, backup and disaster appliance for midrange or larger enterprises. – Convergence continues to be a natural evolution in enterprise IT, whether
it’s about entire data center systems or single units within those systems.
Newcomer Nimble Storage marked an
important day in its corporate life earlier this month (July 15) when it
announced two things: its own launch …
Virsto (the name comes from virtual storage ) wants to do for virtualized storage systems what the hypervisor did for servers: Make them more efficient, so they handle workloads faster and in a less-costly fashion.
– SUNNYVALE, Calif. Startup
Virsto on Feb. 16 introduced both itself and a new brand of storage
virtualization software, a product that the company promises will put
much-needed law and order into willy-nilly data flow inside virtualized
systems.
Data gets scrambled as if in a blender when it t…
Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server/front end that runs on VMware and uses publicly available cloud resources — namely, Amazon S3, Iron Mountain Digital, Nirvanex and Rackspace — to take care of all the cloud storage.
– Imagine if you or your business had a familiar-looking, Web-based storage
file application that Windows-familiar users meaning just about everybody can
use to store and retrieve files from a cloud provider.
This is now possible, thanks to startup Nasuni, which on Feb. 9 introduced a
beta versi…
Backblaze is Bay Area-based a startup that provides unlimited online backup for laptops or desktops to its customers for $5 per month, which is similar in many ways to cloud storage services such as Carbonite, Mozy and Amazon S3. To make his business commercially viable, founder Gleb Budman had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way and still keep his costs low. After looking at several commercial solutions that he considered overpriced, Budman told eWEEK that he and his team decided to build their own custom Backblaze Storage Pods with commodity hardware. They constructed 67TB worth of capacity in a 4U-sized server array. Total cost: $7,867. Budman isn’t afraid to document everything about this project. The new cloud storage system is now working well for Backblaze, Budman said.
However, he and his crew didn’t stop at that. They have since decided to share their development recipe and parts list for this low-cost storage system in an open-source manner. They figure that if companies can build their own cloud storage for a lot less up-front money, then perhaps those same companies will consider utilizing Backblaze’s cloud storage management software.
Our hope is that by sharing, others can benefit and, ultimately, refine this concept and send improvements back to us, Budman said. Evolving and lowering costs is critical to our continuing success at Backblaze.
In this slideshow, we’ll show a general overview about how to make one of these storage pods yourself and save thousands of dollars. Backblaze has made the actual blueprints available in a free download.
You can view a more detailed blog post and a short 3D video illustrating the storage box.
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