The Depths of Software Defined Storage – An Infographic

Reading time: 1 minuteHere’s an infographic which includes all there is to know about Syneto Storage. Take a look:

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KVM on Storage OS

Reading time: 6 minutesI guess the time has come to share with the world some of our technical experiences while bringing new features out on Storage OS. I will stop on our last addition to Storage OS – local virtualization. What does this actually mean? Well you can now run virtual machines on the storage appliance itself without any additional infrastructure. This was a real need that most of our small to medium …

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Storage OS 2.11 is here! See what’s new

Reading time: 3 minutesHere it is! The latest version of the Syneto Storage Operating System has arrived. You can update to version 2.11 straight form the interface. If you don’t have Storage OS yet, which you should, there’s a fully featured free version, which can manage up to 1 TB of data, ready for download here. At Syneto, we’re trying to run a different kind of business, one that truly listens to the …

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Storage OS powered by Illumos vs. Linux. Which is better?

Reading time: 3 minutesThere’s a question which we’re often asked here at Syneto: Isn’t Storage OS powered with Illumos, with the ZFS filesystem comparable to a Linux powered storage system with Logical Volume Manager, RAID protection and the Ext4 filesystem? Frankly, no. And this is not just marketing talk. In this article we’ll study the technical feature differences that set Storage OS apart from a Linux data storage solution. RAIDz There’s a bunch …

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Storage OS 2.10 released; New features, HA clustering and more…

Reading time: 4 minutesIt’s here! What? you ask. Why the latest version of Syneto Storage OS of course. Version 2.10 of Storage OS brings a lot of new features, the addition of High Avalability (HA) clustering and a bunch of fixes. We’ll discuss all this and more in this article. Support for VMware vCenter/ESX 5.1 You already know that Storage OS is the best way to store your VM data, so we always …

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