storage costs

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."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "One online backup provider took a hard look at data storage costs and decided to build its own storage servers for just pennies a gigabyte.

Backblaze's solution — a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at a cost of $7,867, or a little more than 11 cents a gigabyte."