Battle over ZFS heats up

NetApp has asked one of their competitors, Coraid, to halt the sales of their EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliances. The reason? Coraid is using the ZFS file system. Coraid has sent a letter to their customers announcing a temporary sales stop. The Z-Series NAS was announced in May, so NetApp didn’t waste any time in sending their legal threats. Continue reading Battle over ZFS heats up

July 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Other | Leave a comment

Nexenta releases NexentaStor 2.1

Earlier today, Nexenta announced the release of a new version their NexentaStor software, their unified storage software product. It’s based on Sun’s ZFS filesystem, and offers both SAN and NAS functionality. In their own words:

With NexentaStor almost any underlying storage can be managed and presented to virtual servers via NFS or iSCSI or Fiber Channel. The management of the storage for these environments is improved through the use of the VM Data Center optional module from Nexenta that allows for one click storage provisioning and virtual machine cloning.

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August 17th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Networked storage | Leave a comment