by Curt Franklin

Test Center Tracker: Speedy Storage

analysis
Sep 11, 20071 min

Partnerships, confusing acronyms (or, at least, confusing usage), and high-speed disk arrays get the day started here in the InfoWorld Test Center. Entry-level Speed: If you've been looking for a reason to get into the network-attached storage game, NetApp may have the perfect reason to jump. Mario Apicella looks at the new FAS2020 and FAS2050 and finds them high-performance kings of entry-level NAS, with prices

Partnerships, confusing acronyms (or, at least, confusing usage), and high-speed disk arrays get the day started here in the InfoWorld Test Center.

Entry-level Speed: If you’ve been looking for a reason to get into the network-attached storage game, NetApp may have the perfect reason to jump. Mario Apicella looks at the new FAS2020 and FAS2050 and finds them high-performance kings of entry-level NAS, with prices that might leave your CIO with a big gulp at the outset. If speed and management matter, though, the gulp will go away as the performance of the boxes wins fans from users who have to deal with power-hungry applications.

Partnerships from…: Over in Open Sources, Brad Shimmin is talking about the wild and wonderful world of technology alliances in the open source universe. He says we should get used to friends and enemies ending up in strategic alliances–and that it all might just be good for us.

SOA far, so Microsoft: Dave Rosenberg has been studying the latest Microsoft press release on SOA, and says that an acronym is not a technology–at least, when it comes to closed technology versus architectural advantage.