ChannelMark.org: January 2006

Sunday, January 22, 2006

The Golden Rule ... v2?

Just working on a 'tweak' of the Golden Rule.
"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."

Here is a version my friend Gary created:
"Do not take from others more than they are willing to give."

Here are some notes of my "work in progress":
"If all appropriate information is known and agreed, then do unto others as others request, otherwise, do unto others as you would have others do unto you."

More on Zetera's Z-San

Bell Microproducts Announces 'The Future of Network Storage'

Bell's New Hammer Network Storage Line to Feature Zetera's Breakthrough SoIP Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bell Microproducts, Inc. (Nasdaq: BELM), a leading, worldwide distributor of data storage products, announced today the upcoming launch of a new line of network storage devices that incorporate Zetera's Storage over Internetworking Protocol (SoIP) technology. The new product line, which moves Bell Microproducts solidly into the business network storage space, will include desktop and rackmount devices for business users, and is slated for release under Bell Microproducts' Hammer Storage brand in the first quarter of 2006.

I am getting one of these for sure !!

SOHORAID SR3610 Series
External Small-RAID solution which provides with RAID 0, 1 function and user friendly of operation feature.
The SR3610 offers 2 bays of SATA hard drives.

Product Features
> Hardware RAID Design, supports RAID 0,1
> Host Interface: SATA 1.5 GHz (e-SATA port) & USB 2.0 Combo
> Drive Interface: 2x 3.5" SATA 1.5 GHz
> Hot Swappable Tray Module Design compatible with vary Brands of Hard Drive (RAID 1)
> Data Auto-Rebuilding
> LCD Display
> Hard Disk, Fan and Temperature failure detectors to ensure system stability
> Windows-based GUI software
> Standard Interface, No extra driver required

Friday, January 20, 2006

Supplement - Dog Smog Remedy [Funny]

Whether it's coming from your hound or your husband, nothing clears the room faster than those inappropriate gaseous emissions! Our Dog Smog Remedy offers you help for one of those repeat offenders by giving you the power to quell the smell from both ends of your dog. It contains peppermint and fennel to slay the fire breathing beast but it’s more than just a breath freshener. Dog Smog gets to the guts of the problem with herbal extracts of dill, parsley, ginger and bromelain. All of these ingredients help calm the bubbling brute below and provide a long term solution to an embarrassing problem.

Use as a quick spritz to freshen breath or add a drop or two to food. Dog Smog is a powerful weapon in the war on pollution. May also be used on husbands!

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Almost as interesting...

SANmelody software

converts PC servers into cost-effective expansion disk servers. Their added capacity appears as additional internal drives to disk-starved servers on LANs or SANs. This simple solution eliminates the need to commission extra application servers when the existing systems have no more room to add disks. Advanced options include point-in-time snapshots, auto failover across redundant disk servers, auto provisioning of disk space and long-distance asynchronous replication over IP WANs. These functions are host-independent and operate without occupying resources on the application servers.

http://datacore.com/products/prod_SANmelodyLite.asp

Network Boot From iSCSI Storage Using Existing Ethernet Adapters

netBoot/i provides the ability to network boot Windows Servers and Desktops from an iSCSI target remotely located over a standard IP network.

With netBoot/i, lower cost blade / diskless servers and desktops are now supported in iSCSI environments. Using standard Ethernet adapters, netBoot/i offers an iSCSI network boot solution without requiring specific iSCSI HBA hardware.

Servers and desktops can now leverage the benefits of iSCSI disaster recovery. Diskless operation of servers, server farms and desktops allows network management tasks to be consolidated and streamlined while data security is significantly improved. netBoot/i enables rapid bare metal deployment, increases utilization of storage resources and virtualizes operating system data storage.

netBoot/i includes a Windows software initiator driver and all the necessary administration tools to set up an iSCSI network boot environment.

http://www.emboot.com/products_netBoot-i.htm

wow! simply wow

Based on industry-standard Internet Protocol (IP), Zetera Z-SAN™ technology eliminates the need for costly controllers, gateways and RAID controllers that have limited network storage to the enterprise. Z-SAN represents the natural evolution of network storage and delivers on the vision of true Storage-over-IP (SoIP). Z-SAN network storage technology delivers line-speed, controller-less IP storage for a fraction of the cost of iSCSI or Fibre Channel. Z-SAN uses IP as the storage fabric (e.g., SoIP), delivering network storage without bottlenecks and at the lowest cost. The technology uses IP multicast to achieve sharing, spanning and RAID without specialized hardware while scaling linearly without the need for additional controllers/aggregators. http://www.zetera.com/Technology/Overview.html

Here is a product example: