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    Anyone using OpenStack?

    There is a lot of interest and some very big deployments of OpenStack out there. I would agree that we are just at the cusp of seeing whether it will go for the long haul, but there is a lot of money being changed hands right now in regards to OpenStack. OpenStack 'engineers' or people who...
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    1.5 Petabytes: Swiftstack In Pictures

    Thanks for your answers that is great! 4. Remote replication of additional pods in 2 other locations: 1 in Asia and 1 somewhere in the midwest -> Replication is good, but replication is not backup. I am going to assume you are going to do snapshots too on the data, what type of retention...
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    1.5 Petabytes: Swiftstack In Pictures

    A couple of questions for you: 1) Why Openstack instead of some of the other cloud platforms out there? 2) Are you going to be just using the storage stack or are you looking into using the compute and networking components? 3) 500TB usable after everything is said and done. I am going to...
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    Buying Refubished Cisco switches?

    http://www.networkhardware.com/ is where we buy our used/refurbed Cisco equipment. They have been excellent.
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    Building a work SAN, need reccomendations

    Take a look at Jetstor. http://www.acnc.com/ They are really easy to work with and have been around a long time. If you need a contact there I can give you a contact that will treat you well.
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    Inexpensive dedicated storage without ZFS?

    Why not look into Storage Spaces with Windows 8? Easy to manage, expand, and to have redundancy.
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    Cheapest way to get a SAS 8088 external port.

    Here is my problem. I have a number of external SAS tape drives that I have for testing in our lab. I do not have enough SAS cards though, and all the cards I am seeing that have an 8088 external SAS port are all like $300-$400. I am looking for something on the cheaper side, this is only...
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    Software To Image Office Computers

    Here are the ones I would suggest looking at: Acronis (http://www.acronis.com/) ShadowProtect (http://www.shadowprotect.com/) NovaBACKUP (http://www.novastor.com/en/software/sql-exchange-network-backup) Disclaimer I work for this company. This would offer you a central management web interface...
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    Streaming music to the office

    Grab a couple Sonos devices and pipe music throughout the office?
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    Small business. Management of data and long term storage

    I meant no disrespect at all! I work in the backup industry and these are the types of questions that we basically have to ask in order to determine what type of backup solution to provide. I don't know what kind of bad press you have seen about tape, but tape is very reliable. Cloud backup...
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    Small business. Management of data and long term storage

    So I have a couple questions for you that I want you to think about. How much is your data worth to you that you want to backup? How much would it cost to recreate the data? Do you depend on the historical data in your day to day working? Now you say you keep up with your farm equipment, but...
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    Please review this server build

    Why not Amazon EC2 or Azure?
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    VMWare: working with large VM's

    As an employee of a backup software company I can tell you most definitely tape is not dead. :) The LTO-6 drives I have are plenty fast and with a 2.5TB native capacity the tapes end up being cheaper than spinning disk right now for archival purposes. Not to mention they dont need power once...
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    HGST 4TB Touro Desktop External Drive $169.99 (limit 2) Amazon.com

    in for 2
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    20TB Data Archival a year on the cheap .... help

    You said Data Archival. Go to tape and don't look back. LTO6 is 2.5TB native capacity.
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