I started reading about these things on Monday when Dustin first posted about them. The more I read, the more excited I got about the possibilities that the AoE technology has and the capabilities of the products given the low price. I printed out some of the info and showed it to my managers who were also impressed at the cost and capabilities. Then I checked the web site again last night, and the prices are even lower! I'm definitely looking forward to hearing Brantley speak. Hopefully we'll be buying an EtherDrive system soon.
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 22:40 -0600, Dustin Puryear wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
