Off site storage is a given once figure that out This is quite interesting to say the least Thanks to all the varied input On 4/19/09, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Have you thought about a private cloud instead? Using something similar to a > in house EBS solution you could add space on the fly, aggressively cache for > performance, and have it well distributed across your campuses. In addition > I believe Ubuntu 9.4 Server even comes preconfigured with Eucalyptus, or > something similar, which should make it a nearly turn key solution. Just > another option to think of. > > http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/ > > > However, make sure you keep in mind that you will still want off site data > backups, which can potential double your total storage costs. > > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Stephen wrote: > >> Not likely to be doing av edits directly but we will need some fair io >> >> The server backend is likely to be a stack of xenservers. The best >> part is we will be building the datacenter from scratch >> >> >> >> On 4/19/09, Shawn Badger wrote: >> > You could either go with a NetApp or EMC solution and not make a bad >> choice >> > on either, but be warned that you will be spending over $100K to get >> > it >> up >> > and running right. Are you going to be editing the video while it >> directly >> > stored on the SAN or is the SAN just going to be a repository? If you >> > are >> > planning on editing directly from the SAN then be sure to get the 15K >> fibre >> > channel drives. You will also want lots of drive to distribute the disk >> I/O >> > across as many spindles as possible. The number of clients attached will >> > dictate how many drives you will need. I don't remember the ratio, but >> > if >> > you want it I'm sure I could find it. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Stephen wrote: >> > >> >> anyone here using a SAN and if so what are they using, maybe some of >> >> the points that sold you on it? or i fyou hate it why? >> >> >> >> it would be nic to have real world thoughts on it instead of all the >> >> markey speak... >> >> >> >> -- >> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> >> >> Stephen >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss