Storage What's Happening July 2008
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July 2008 OpenSolaris Storage Community What's Happening
Quotes of the Month
News
Conferences
- None this month
Project Updates
- Tom Haynes announced the availability of the latest version of the pNFS code as based on the draft 19 version of the IETF standard
- Project Celeste - a Sun Microsystems Laboratories research project investigating techniques for building a distributed, master-less, peer-to-peer, byzantine and fault-tolerant mutable object store is live (9-July)
- OpenSolaris mega_sas driver project is now Live! The driver support the LSI MegaRAID SAS HBA. (18-July)
- The guys from the FCoE team have posted the latest packages and source on their project page. This is a great addition to the COMSTAR infrastructure. (30-July)
- Ramana from the Object Storage Device (OSD) project posted the latest source and binaries for the OSD target. (31-July)
Community Status
Messages
- Total messages for all storage related lists: 1700
- Up 86% y/y
- Down 6.6% m/m
Web site
- Total page views: 76,800
- Up 38% y/y
- Up 1.6% m/m
Misc. Community
- 38 endorsed projects
- 141 community observers
- 125 subscribers on storage-announce (8% increase m/m)
Videos
- Check out the latest at: http://blogs.sun.com/storage/en_US/category/Video
Newsletter Contributors
Jeff Cheeney
