Storage Technologies discussion list

There is a lot of innovation happening in the storage technologies and Open Source projects are an important contributor in this space.

From a end user perspective, we are already witness to a personal terabyte, SCSI, SATA disks, RAID and increasingly sophisticated backups.

Recognizing the requirement to disseminate and share information, TWINCLING Society has started a Storage Technologies discussion list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/storage/

We plan to discuss the following topics -

• Open Source storage Projects, Products and Libraries.


• BSD and Linux kernel specific implementations


• Open Source storage device driver implementations


• Open Source storage appliance development


• Storage Processors and Open Source device drivers
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• Storage Technology Discussion and Tutorials


• Storage Trends, News and Blogs


• Fast Ethernet, 1G, 10G, 100G Ethernet


• Myrinet, Data Center Ethernet


• Fiber Channel, FCIP, iFCP


• SCSI, CAM, iSCSI, HBA Cards


• SAN (Storage Area Networks)


• NAS (Network Attached Storage)


• Storage Security, LUN masking


• Storage Virtualization approaches, Xen


• Continuous Data Protection & Backup


• Email & File Archiving


• Compliance & Regulatory Issues


• Business Continuity


• Disaster Recovery Planning


• Product Reviews


• IETF Working Groups, Drafts, RFC


• SNIA, t10, t11 draft/std tracker


• Storage Patents


• Storage specific Job postings


• Hyderabad specific Storage Seminars, Workshops.

So if you are interested in storage technologies, please join the list today at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/storage/

Sat, 7th April - XEN - Open Source virtualization software

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Topic: XEN - Open Source virtualization software
Date: 7th April
Time: 5pm - 9pm

The speaker for the session is Mr. Saifi Khan. He will talk on Virtualization technology, Xen architecture and how Xen is implemented on x86 platform.
Xen live demos will be done jointly by Narender Rao and Saifi Khan.

Contents
What is virtualization ?
Virtualization on x86 platform.
Applications of virtualization
XEN - Open source virtualization software
Architecture
Performance
How XEN is implemented
Live demo of XEN and its applications

Venue
5th Floor Conf Room,
CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ashoka Janardhan Chambers
S.P. Road,
Begumpet
Hyderabad 500 016.

To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here.

All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it.

This is a FREE event.

You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance to handle the security check. All the attendees are requested to kindly cooperate in this matter since the security has to handle large number of visitors.

For assistance, please call the Society helpline :
+91 - 98482 37656
+91 - 99492 53753

Please feel free to send this link to your friends and colleagues.

regards
TWINCLING Society News & Editorial Team (TSNET)

Sat, 17th March - Advanced FreeBSD/Linux Networking

The Advanced FreeBSD/Linux Networking session is scheduled to be held on Saturday, 17th March 2007 at 5pm.

at 5th Floor Conf Room,
CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ashoka Janardhan Chambers
S.P. Road, Begumpet

There will be a demo lab setup for this session.

The broad level contents of the talk will cover -

NFS (Network File System)
CIFS/Samba
PPP/PPPoE
- Architecture
- Configuration and deployment
- Tips-n-tricks

New additions to the stack
- SCTP

RDMA Fabric technologies
- InfiniBand
- iWARP
- 1g, 10g and 100g ethernet
- DataCenter Ethernet
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All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it.

This is a FREE event.

You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance
to handle the security check. All the attendees are requested
to kindly cooperate in this matter since the security has to
handle large number of visitors.

For assistance, please call the Society helpline :
+91 - 98482 37656
+91 - 99492 53753

Please feel free to send this link to your friends and colleagues.

regards
TWINCLING Society News & Editorial Team (TSNET)