commodity hardware

Data Deduplication with Linux

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Thu, 08/25/2011 - 09:27

Lessfs offers a flexible solution to utilize data deduplication on affordable commod


 

EMC Moves into Business Analytics with Greenplum Acquisition

Linux Today  Tue, 07/13/2010 - 09:08

eCRM Guide: "Greenplum is built on the open source PostgreSQL database and commodity hardware, giving the company a pricing edge over competitors.

It also developed its own MapReduce technology after initially looking at Hadoop."


 

Linux is now Oracle's low-end offering

Linux Today  Sat, 02/20/2010 - 22:02

Search Enterprise Linux: "Oracle Corp. has rekindled its Solaris love. Sun's Solaris operating system will underlie new high-end data center appliances running the Oracle software stack.

And Oracle EnterpriseLinux now becomes the preferred OS for lower-end commodity hardware."


 

Storage Vendors Cut Costs With Open Source

Linux Today  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 14:33

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Two data storage vendors are out with new products this week that they claim can save users a bundle over more traditional storage systems.

Nexenta and ParaScale both use open source software and commodity hardware to lower storage costs for enterprises."


 

Commodity Software

Linux Magazine: Top Stories  Tue, 07/28/2009 - 20:53

Commodity hardware is the norm in HPC. What about commodity software?