Some background on this so people know what it's about and if they want to attend. I ran into these guys over SC, and we had a telecon/webex meeting last week to go over their technology. What they sell is a tiered storage front-end to existing NFS infrastructure. The device (or cluster of devices) speak NFS to your file servers and NFS/CIFS to your clients. It contains a tiered storage system inside consisting of RAM, SAS and SATA, and caches all the data communications, giving you a performance improvement over your existing server. What makes them interesting to me (over things like BlueArc or NetApp) is twofold: 1) Price - they're cheaper by a long shot, since you keep your existing storage and can add cheap disk at well. 2) Test drive - they're actually willing to lend us a demo unit so we can put it through the wringer and see if it lives up to promised performance. I haven't been able to get anything like this out of BlueArc or NexSAN (haven't tried NetApp). If this is interesting tech to you, come by the presentation. == Craig _______________________________________________ This is the CELS Sysadmins mailing list. It is sent to memebers of: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Do not subscribe directly to this list. Thanks.