Recently we’ve seen an explosion of new ideas based on the ‘cloud computing’ concept, and the chances are that many of you want to participate in this lucrative market as well. So what features do you need to provide to offer virtual servers ‘in the cloud’?  These are the fundamentals: Your cloud service must be highly available, with automatic failover. The promise of cloud computing is that is it always on, and instantly available. Automatic [...]

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – always. The same applies to technological progress – It begins with the simplest solutions, if you look at it in terms of time. Take a look at the inventions which have become the starting point for present giant data centers. They were only the drop in the bucket, but remember, progress is a continuous process. It has continued, it is still ongoing and [...]

Mass data storage – you think it is boring. Am I right? If you believe so, let me change your point of view. We would like to present a list of ten ideas – or rather prophecies. Some of them have been fulfilled, some not, yet one question will remains unchanged: what will be next? Furthermore, where are the limits of technology evolution – or maybe revolution? Is it simply a limit of human imagination? [...]

Does size matter? When we were younger we had dreams – dreams about the future and technology. We remember science-fiction movies with all the flashing little bulbs hypnotizing us. Buttons have concealed mysteries, holding secrets about unattainable knowledge. And perhaps this knowledge, along with the incredible machines responsible for its storage, would even give us power to control the entire world. Was this all magic? Well, not exactly – not now, in the present. There [...]

Life is full of imperfections – we all know it. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no particular reason. As they say: “it happens”. All we can do is to find a way to make some unavoidable situations… avoidable. Every kind of hardware has its restrictions, week points, resistance etc. Whatever we do, we cannot be sure that our data is absolutely safe. Even James Bond-like data HQ cannot give us such assurance. So, [...]

Open-E, Inc. is a pioneering leader and developer of IP-based storage management software with headquarters in the United States and Europe. Founded in 1998, the company sells its line of storage management software through a world-wide network of system integrator and reseller partners. The Open-E products are aimed at the SMB and SME markets and enjoy a reputation for best-in-class performance, flexibility, reliability, scalability and return-on-investment. Open-E storage management products are known throughout the storage [...]