COMSTAR integrated into Solaris Nevada Build 90 -"Last week (5/5/08) I did the putback of final COMSTAR bits into Network Storage Consolidation for release into Solaris Nevada B90. The entire team was very excited to have made the target as it was not easy. Too many things to cover before integration. The following features have been delivered into build 90..." - Sumit Gupta

From last week's open storage launch, Sun's Lynn Rohrer and Matthew Baier talk about Building an Open Storage Community:
 

Went into build 90 yesterday! Read more on Dan's blog.

Larry Rosen of Rosenlaw & Einschlag speaks at the SNIA Storage Developers' Conference (September, 2007) on "Open Source in the Storage Industry". Now available in iPod video format, or watch the original embedded Flash.

Attorney Steven W. Teppler presents at SNIA's Storage Security Industry Forum Summit on "eDiscovery and the Electronic Data Universe" - rules of electronic discovery and other factors that the storage industry needs to consider in designing systems to store data that will stand up in a court of law.  

Introduction (Part 1) - 10:49 mins - in iPod video format

Part 2 - 38:24 mins - in iPod video format

Part 3 - 31:49 mins - in iPod video format

...or watch the original embedded Flash.

For Tuesday's open storage launch, we talked to several of our open storage partners about how they're using Sun's fully open storage software stack to the benefit of their customers and their business models. Then we realized that iTunes was only showing the first of the two interviews we featured, so here's Greg Perry's well-deserved chance to catch the iTunes limelight:

Jeff Jackson's keynote speech at Sun Tech Days, Milan, Sept 27, 2007. Now available in iPod video format, or watch the original embedded Flash video.

Jeff, Lynn and I will be all over the Bay Area the first week in May, for the following events:

OpenSolaris Developer Summit, on the UCSC campus in beautiful Santa Cruz, May 3-4

CommunityOne in San Francisco, May 5

Grid & Cluster, Oakland, May 12-16

Hope to see you at one or more of these events!

 

UPDATE! iPod video link fixed! (See below.)
 

Open Storage community manager Jeff Cheeney and his son Chase built a home NAS box, and shared their recipe with FROSUG. Read more about it from Jeff!

 

21 mins.

Also available in iPod video format

OpenStorage in the news... OpenStorage IS the news - "OpenStorage  provides customers the advantage of a global community, with all the building blocks they need to accelerate business and market response at 1/10th the cost, with freedom to change vendors. Unlike the competition, Sun remains active in the community, offering the full range of service and support to help you at any point along the path to OpenStorage." - Bob Porras

Open Storage... from a community perspective - "The team I hang out with spent the last year delivering on Sun's April 10, 2007 commitment to open source our Solaris-based storage software. It's been an exciting year... partly because of the open source contributions we've seen from our storage vendor friends, QLogic, Emulex, and Hitachi Data Systems, as well as the community members like Digitar and Joyent who have put the OpenSolaris storage capabilities into action in their datacenters." - Lynn Rohrer

Sun is on to something - Open Storage - "I freely admit, when Sun announced its open source storage community a year go I was a skeptic.  Sure, open source has its play in software and servers - but storage?  Well, after a year of watching Sun's open storage investments, industry-standard hardware used in enterprise storage and working within Sun on today's announcement - Sun Extends World's First Open Storage Platform - I think Sun is on to something..." - Taylor Allis

For today's open storage launch, we talked to several of our open storage partners about how they're using Sun's fully open storage software stack to the benefit of their customers and their business models:

Sit in on a Sun training session on "Fibre Channel Concepts," by Sumit Gupta. Now you can take it with you in iPod video format.

UPDATE! Part 2 now available in iPod video format.

 

 

Spencer Shepler speaking at the SNIA Storage Developers' Conference (September, 2007) on Filebench. Now available in iPod video format, or watch the original embedded Flash video.

This morning while trolling through the blogsphere we encouterned some enlightning blog posts.

Storage, Storage, Storage - "Using ZFS you can now build high-capacity, redundant storage systems for as little as $.25-.50/GB, which is pretty close to street price for the drives themselves. Alternatively, you can build tier-1 high-performance redundant storage systems, roughly equivalent in quality to enterprise solutions, for as low as $2/GB, which is practically unheard of." - Randy Bias from neoTactics.

Less known Solaris Features: Point-in-time copy with AVS - Joerg Moellenkamp presents a detailed tutorial on the enterprise critical feature Availability Suite (blog).

 

 

Charles Baker gives "an Introduction to Developing in OpenSolaris" to the Front Range Solaris User Group, now available in iPod video format. Or view the original embedded Flash video.