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Big (and Small) Developments In Storage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-escape-the-size-wars dept.

louismg writes "On the same day that BlueArc released the Titan 2000 family, with performance more than three times higher than rivals EMC and NetApp, including a global namespace and scalability to 512 terabytes, EMC took a low-end approach by unveiling a line for the SMB market, dubbed Insignia. Red Herring claims that BlueArc's announcement changes the storage game, while The Register says that small means beautiful. What makes sense for today's IT infrastructures, with data growth showing no sign of slowing?"

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  1. Commodity Mass Storage by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 2, Funny

    As both SAN and NAS envrionments will proliferate both in density, and diversity. I forsee that, as these become more and more commonplace, we will have at least one locally attached to each computing device in the near future - giving birth to LA-SAN/NAS.

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    1. Re:Commodity Mass Storage by kevin.fowler · · Score: 2, Funny

      LA-SAN/NAS

      Is that near Mexico city? I think I've partied there before.

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  2. Re:Better organization! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    and dozens of gigs of other useful stuff that I only need on an occasional basis.
    Pr0n, eh?