Everything is a Freaking DNS problem - storage http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/738/0 en Q-Layer will opensource Q-San and Q-Store http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/566 <p>Here at <a href="http://www.profoss.eu/" rel="nofollow">Profoss</a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/despiegk" rel="nofollow">Kristof</a> is just announcing that <a href="http://www.qlayer.com" rel="nofollow"> Q-Layer</a> will be opensourcing their <a href="http://www.qlayer.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=91&amp;Itemid=124" rel="nofollow">Q-Store</a> and <a href="http://www.qlayer.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=92&amp;Itemid=125" rel="nofollow">Q-San</a> technologies</p> <p>From their site</p> <p><cite>Q-SAN is a hyperfast Infiniband or Gigabit ethernet enabled virtual SAN: it is a pure software solution that has all functionalities of the common hardware-based SANs. Q-SAN is available as an option of Q-Store; it provides virtual disks to servers provisioned on top of the Q-layer platform and to external consumers over the iSCSI protocol.</cite></p> <p><cite><br /> Q-store is a storage and volume management solution with an easy-to-use GUI and a SOAP API that allows full automation and integration. Q-store enables storage virtualization, the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices into one single device that is managed from a central console. Storage virtualization can be applied for a wide range of purposes, such as high-end database storage, backup storage, virtual disks for virtual servers etc. </cite></p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/566#comments opensource profoss q-san q-store qlayer storage Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:11:26 +0000 Kris Buytaert 566 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog