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SAN, NAS, Cost and Benefits?
luetin asks: "Our company is at the point where our storage and backup infrastructure is ok, but not for much longer. We are looking into SAN, NAS, and variations thereof. We are a small IT department, with two sysadmins and two programmers. Right now we have stored/circulating about 2TB of data, and that's going to increase steadily in coming years. Does Slashdot have experience setting up SANs? Tales of costs and benefits of SANs versus a gaggle of NAS? Can SAN be implemented by reasonably seasoned IT people, or is it too dark an art?" -
iSCSI Moves Toward Standard
EyesWideOpen writes "The iSCSI technology, which allows computers to connect to hard drives over a network connection such as a company Ethernet network or the Internet, requires only minor changes before the Internet Engineering Task Force endorses it as a formal version 1.0 standard. A final round of comments has been completed on the technology according to the Storage Networking Industry Association, the subgroup that led the creation of the iSCSI, and as a result companies now can start building iSCSI products." -
SNIA to Release SMB/CIFS Docs
juan large moose writes: "According to this post on the Samba Technical mailing list, the Storage Network Industry Association will shortly release version 1.0 of their own SMB/CIFS technical reference. Version 0.9 has been available for some time. Last week, Microsoft released their own CIFS specification, but there was a catch. According to a statement in the document, readers were not permitted to implement software based on the Microsoft spec. unless they signed a license agreement. The SNIA document comes with no such restrictions. Several organizations, including IBM, HP, the jCIFS Team, Network Appliance, the Samba Team, etc. contributed to the SNIA document." -
Microsoft Releases CIFS Docs -- Free Ball & Chain
juan large moose writes: "Microsoft has released documentation on the CIFS protocol suite, but there may be a catch. The license says that the documentation is available for review, but no one may implement the described technology without signing a 'royalty-free' license agreement. Some reviewers are reporting that the document provides less information than the earlier IETF DRAFT CIFS specification, and may in fact be a cleaned-up version of an outdated Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Document. These other documents do not have the restrictive license."