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•Contributing Editorial: The Introduction Of The 256 Petabyte File System Into Disk-Based Backup

By Jerome M. Wendt DCIG LLC

When I recently attended VMworld 2008, I had the opportunity to get a closer look at NEC's latest HYDRAstor release, the HS8-2000, and some of its features. Of course at a trade show all you generally have the time and opportunity to do is take a quick look at some of the product's hardware and software features. But in this case there was a feature on the HYDRAstor that struck me just from the short time I spent evaluating it: the ability to create a 256 petabyte (PB) or larger file system.

For those of you unfamiliar with the HYDRAstor, it is not a virtual tape library (VTL) but a networked attached storage (NAS) system that is primarily intended for use as a disk-based backup target. Configured as NAS, it presents a file system (CIFS or NFS) to backup servers that use it as a disk-based backup target. Now normally using NAS as a disk-based backup target may be a concern in enterprise shops for one major reason: file systems have limited capacity that creates an upper limit in terms of how large they can grow.

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•Contributing Editorial: The Introduction Of The 256 Petabyte File System Into Disk-Based Backup