Meanwhile, BlueArc's Si8300 supports up to 7 Tbytes of storage capacity, while the Si8700 supports up to 98 Tbytes of storage and delivers 25.6 Tbytes in a single 42U enclosure (see BlueArc Unveils SiliconServer Family).
Still, Barrall says there will be some customers out there, like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), that require high-availability features like clustering (see Livermore Labs Back for More BlueArc).
The first iteration of BlueArc's clustering software, code-named Agathos [ed. note: Greek for "good"], will be released in the second quarter of 2003. Right now, BlueArc offers an active/standby feature, which means one of its systems can fail over to a second server. The new software will allow any BlueArc server to fail over to a second system -- in industry-speak, n-way clustering.
In the first quarter of 2004, BlueArc expects to ship its single file-system image feature, or global file system. This is the Holy Grail of file system technology: It provides one giant file system that can store every file by every user in an organization, making it much easier to manage files in a large company. (For more on global file systems, see our report, Next-Gen File Systems.)
Meanwhile, NAS startup Spinnaker Networks Inc. says it's providing new clustering features with version 2.0 of its operating system software, available this month. The upgrade provides three primary features: high availability, meaning any server in a cluster can fail and the others pick up the load; nondisruptive data movement among servers in a cluster; and asynchronous mirroring (see Spinnaker Cuts Its Crew and Spinnaker Shoves Off).
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