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Cut Storage Costs With Open Source SoftwareBy Paul ShreadNovember 25, 2009
Everyone's looking to save money these days, and storage is no exception. Here, like in other areas, open source software can deliver the functionality you need at a price point you want. Enterprise Storage Forum looks at two recently unveiled offerings. Two data storage vendors came out with new products last week that they claim can save users a bundle over more traditional storage systems. Nexenta and ParaScale both use open source software and commodity hardware to lower storage costs for enterprises. Nexenta uses Sun's (NASDAQ: JAVA) ZFS file system and x86 servers to create enterprise-class storage, while ParaScale uses Linux and commodity hardware to create a "private cloud" of tier 2 file storage. Read the full article at Enterprise Storage Forum
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