Great. Now I need a few more hands. :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Fournet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] EtherDrive Storage Blades > aye * 2 > > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 14:54 -0600, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
