Auspex Systems
Auspex introduced the world's first
Network Attached Storage
(NAS) server shortly after its founding in 1987, creating a new breed of storage
appliance offering significant performance and administrative benefits over
general-purpose file servers. Auspex's enterprise-class network servers are used
worldwide for consolidated information storage and delivery. Auspex also is
leading the convergence of NAS with
Storage Area Networks
(SANs) with the NSc3000 Network Storage Controller, the first multivendor
SAN-to-NAS gateway.
see also:-
Auspex
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- Editor's notes:- the article -
A Storage Architecture
Guide is an enduring legacy for Auspex which went bankrupt in June 2003.
GlassHouse Technologies
acquired their services business.
Network Appliance
bought Auspex Systems' patents.
Auspex started out as a manufacturer
of SPARC based servers.
In 1992 - the
SPARC Product Directory
listed details of their NS 3000 server. The 42" high cabinet had 96MB ECC
RAM, 20GB HDD storage and 8 VMEbus expansion slots. It delivered 675 NFS IOPS
(using 4 ethernets, at 70mS response time.)
Its last SPARC server,
introduced in Q3 1994, was the NS 7000, with 180GB HDD storage. It used
Hyper-SPARC processors and supported upto 24 ethernets and 4 FDDI networks. |
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| SPARC History |
Spellabyte and
Terrorbyte loved sitting around
the campfire, discussing the good old days
of
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Safe in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article (published in March 2008) to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
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