Recently I was reading an old post about the end of the Dual Controller Architecture. http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/data_protection/229209939 Today, almost 4 years later still Dual Controllers is kind of an obvious choice for many IT administrators. The reason for the motivation is due to the guarantee of the dual controller brings to the table: Zero Single Point of Failure (SPOF). Redundant controllers,  redundant power supply, redundant cooling and the RAID makes this possible. The RAID is providing [...]

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 [...]

Business continuity is becoming a more and more important feature. A significant portion of the purchases of our Data Storage Software are in pairs. Customers are using pairs of 2 systems in order to build high availability clusters with our iSCSI Failover feature. (Our recent webinar on iSCSI Failover was our best attended webinar ever.) Getting to the point: why would one want to make switchless 10Gb connections. Even though 10Gb CX4 ports are inexpensive [...]