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Openfiler takes the pain out of deploying and managing networked storage. You bring the hardware, any industry standard server will do, combine it with our Openfiler software and the result is a powerful networked storage solution that exports your data via a full suite of industry standard storage networking protocols. Openfiler lowers deployment and maintenance costs for networked storage without compromising functionality or performance.
Zumastor is Free software that adds enterprise storage features (primarily improved snapshots and remote replication) to Linux.
You can read all about it in the Zumastor Howto. The current release is 0.8, which adds several bugfixes (in particular, replication between x86 and x86_64 hosts now works) and experimental native Hardy packages.
Marco Giuliani, malware analyst dell’azienda di sicurezza PrevX, ha segnalato sul suo PC al Sicuro e sul blog ufficiale di PrevX, la diffusione in-the-wild di uno nuovo pericoloso codice malware rootkit che attacca il Master Boot Record del disco di sistema per compromettere il sistema operativo sin dall’avvio. Link
Implementing SOA can be an extremely expensive undertaking. You might need to purchase several products within the SOA stack like an enterprise service bus (ESB), a business process modeling (BPM) tool, a portal, a rules engine and a data services tool. But it doesn’t stop there. There are additional tools for testing, SOA governance, security… and the list goes on and on. In addition to all the software, you need to budget for training, hardware, consulting and salaries. Link
The following 10 items are guidelines more than rules, that I have learned over the years doing intensive work on the IT infrastructure. These guidelines are mostly common sense and can be helpful for anybody who administers an IT system, including Linux/Windows Administrator, Network Administrator and DBA. Link
London-based Alfresco Software Inc. has taken direct aim at Microsoft’s popular SharePoint collaboration software by adding similar functionality to its open source content management software. The clincher: transparency and integration with Microsoft Office.
Businesses now can download a beta version of Alfresco Labs 3 and import or export data to and from Office files and into Alfresco’s repository just as they would with SharePoint. Alfresco Labs 3 has the same look and feel as SharePoint, but with one big difference: It’s free.
Martedì 24 giugno 2008
Palo Alto (USA) – Da ieri la comunità Linux ha a disposizione un nuovo file system di livello enterprise, il Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS), software di cui HP ha deciso di aprire il codice sorgente pubblicandolo sotto la licenza GPL2. Link originale
Nelle architetture di storage di NetApp, questo modello è basato sul file system WAFL®, RAID 4, l’utilizzo fatto da NetApp della NVRAM, e sull’esclusivo approccio alle copie Snapshot™. Questi sono gli elementi costitutivi di base che continuano a definire i sistemi di storage NetApp. Essi continuano inoltre a favorire l’evoluzione delle caratteristiche che portano avanti il DNA di base – si tratti di funzioni di protezione e ritenzione dei dati (SnapMirror® e SnapVault®), funzioni di compliance (LockVault™), o mezzi efficienti per replicare i dataset di lavoro per ambienti dev/test/QA (FlexClone™). link
