Management MonogatariTales of Resource Management from Mark A. CarlsonSo you want to build a storage server...- June 18, 2008 You have lots of company. Storage Servers have been around since the days when Sun first put NFS on their workstations. Administrators would load up one workstation with disks and share it with the others. Even today, a large percentage of our "servers" end up as storage servers when deployed. The acquisition rules for some companies actually favor building a storage server over the purchasing of a separate appliance. The server budget is typically separate from the storage budget for most...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/so_you_want_to_build XAM Java Binding Overview- June 16, 2008 This article was originaly posted to the Royal Jelly blog: http:weblogs.java.netblogmacsun The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) is new kind of storage interface for storage devices that can handle a special type of data, called "Fixed Content". Version 1.0 is soon to be released, but there is a working draft available of the Architecture Specification, the C Language Binding and the Java Language Binding. It is this last document that this post covers. A good introduction to XAM is the...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/xam_java_binding_overview Preservation and Archiving- June 5, 2008 It was an exciting week for Preservation and Archiving activities. First, I was introduced to several key academic researchers (and software developers) in the digital repository space who had come early to get the inside scoop on the latest ST 5800 (Honeycomb) developments. Dave Tarrant (University of Southampton), Ben O’Steen (University of Oxford), and Neil Jeffries, R&D Project Manager, Oxford University Libraries met with us in the Honeycomb development facility in San Francisco. I..http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/preservation_and_archiving |