Brantley would like to discuss storage blades at the January meeting. However, due to the low (=> no) attendence in December, I want to get a hand-count of people that will attend first. Anyone that will be attending, say "aye".
----- Original Message ----- > This talk covers some of the history of disks and networking and how > they came together. It also shows how the EtherDrive storage blades > are the next step in the evolution of storage. Starting with the work > at IBM in the 50's, the development of disk storage technology has > advanced non-stop. The advent of Ethernet networking in the 1970's > ushered in a new era of storage: keeping disk on one network node and > doing the computation on another. This talk will show how IBM > channels, fibre channel, SCSI, SMD, ST506 and ATA all fit into > history, and how Ethernet continues to affect storage, first with NFS, > and iSCSI and now AoE. > > Brantley Coile is the CTO of Coraid Inc and along with Sam Hopkins > developed the AoE protocol. Brantley has been doing Unix stuff for > over 20 years, first with Seventh Edition Unix. Brantley did > pioneering work in embedding Unix in the 1980s, and was the first to > develop a disk caddy for SCSI disk in 1986. Brantley is also known > for the invention of stateful packet inspection and tcp based load > sharing network applicance. His products include the Cisco PIX and > the Cisco LocalDirector. > > Coraid is a new startup founded to provide the most affordable and > flexible storage possible to the Open Source community. Coraid's > products includes the EtherDrive storage blade, and the RAIDblade RAID > front end. > > http://www.coraid.com > > > >
