I just tried to order a Dell Desktop System without Windows installed and asked if I could get Linux installed instead. After the guy on the other end of the phone stopped laughing, he asked me: So which one of the 500 plus versions of Linux did you have in mind? (I heard him laughing).... I...

Is anyone aware of a product or products that will allow for the seamless sharing of both of these platforms? I know HDS has a product that used to be called "RapidXchange" that allow for the reading of open systems data on a mainframe. Thanks.

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We have a Dell PV 56F fibre channel switch for auction that was just removed from production. It is out of warranty but is 100% functional, I belive Dell would provide a warranty extension for this unit. I can supply you the service tag if you are interested. It was recently upgraded with 16...

I remember seeing a document that explained how this worked but am unable to find it. Does anyone have any documenation on this? Thanks.

We have been using SAM-FS for a number of years now but our current Sun T3 storage arrays (280Gb per brick) need upgrading. Any recommendations on what disk storage to use with SAM-FS utilization suite (not SAM-QFS). What are other people out there using? More than likely this will be direct...

Call for papers EUROSYS 1 Leuven April 18-21, 2006 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/ Important dates: Registration of abstracts October 8, 2005 (mandatory)

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 00:40:51 +0100, m0rk wrote: We have a wan of w2k servers, several locations, all varying degrees of storage on HP servers ... the main HQ currently have a 1TB array of disks that has about 100gb free currently ... They are looking at a SAN solution to give...

I am investigating hardware compression options in a disk-to-disk backup environment. Does anyone know of any existing solutions which provide hardware compression with support for disk-to-disk backups on a Windows 2003 Server running Veritas Backup Exec? I have only found what appears to be a...

Anyone hear when SAIT-2 is expected to be released. The roadmap says 2005 and in reviewing some articles from 03 and 04 it should have already happened. Thanks in advance

Does anyone have or know of a good whitepaper on this topic? I am looking into certification and thought it would be a good place to start. Thanks.

I obtained from a company that I work for an old Raidzone machine. It's been running fine but something happend and now it won't boot. I have the important backed up from it. I am unable to get support from Raidzone for it. I don't have any CD's from it and I can't get any assistance from...

I have a number of servers I'm migrating to a SAN, including a large number of file shares (hundreds total). I'm looking for a tool that can do a move from one file system to another, both maintaining the data and the file share information. What should I use, and how should I go about this?

What is the best way to archive all of the data on a Snap Appliance 4500? Management wants a copy of all data off-site before writing more files. We have 350GB of data at this time and ~24 hours (Saturday night to Sunday night) to transfer it to removable media. They don't want us to use...

20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles October 23-26, 2005 The Grand Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom Registration now open: http://www.sosp-20.com/registration.htm ` Early registration deadline; Sept. 23rd 2005 General chair Andrew Herbert, Microsoft Research

Hi I generally find it hard to find data about the performance of storage - it seems that this is something that vendors perfer not to advertise, except when they advertise something like a number of IO/s that are obviously when it's to/from cache. Some do have tests that show the performance in...

Hi, I thought maybe it was about time I implemented some kind of backup strategy for all my personal files at home. I have a bundle of data cd's and was just wondering what methods other people have adopted in order to insure against future data loss. How would I go about creating an exact copy...

Does anyone know of a MSA1000 CLI Simulator or a MSA1000 ACU Simulator

Hello all, I'm currently investigating a MSA 1000 SAN (including a DL360 server) solution for my company. Initially, the SAN will be the storage for a SQL database, that will be running on the DL360, and that has about 25 concurrent users. USER folders will be migrated here also. I'm planning on...

Hi, I'd just like to know if anyone has experience with the AMI StorTrends 2104, because we'd like to get one of those. Pro's, con's or other remarks are welcome. Thanks, Wimmy