[nmglug] ATA-over-Ethernet SAN - Speaker for march 10th

[js at jasonschaefer.com]

"
Jason,

My sincerest apologies.  I had a tragedy in my family,
my Father has suffered a major stroke, and got distracted.
I thought I had notified everyone, but must have missed your group.

Sorry again for my mistake.
"
  Brantley



js at jasonschaefer.com wrote:

> On March 10th (two meetings from now), Brantley Coile, founder of 
> Coraid, will be giving a presentation on a type of SAN using ATA over 
> ethernet. In his own words,  "The EtherDrive storage blades are a way 
> to connect disk drives directly on an Ethernet network.  A GPL device 
> driver for Linux completes the picture by making the disks appear 
> local.  We've defined a new protocol, AoE or ATA-over-Ethernet, to do 
> this. EtherDrive storage blades are like Storage Area Network but 
> much, much less expensive.  Now the Linux community can do a lot of 
> nifty things that were too expensive before."
>
> Brantley will be flying from Athens, Georgia to give this 
> presentation. The presentation will take place at the SF Baking 
> Company from 5:30 to 8:00 on 3/10 (regular meeting time).
>
> Hope to see you all there.
> Jason
>
>
> Contact info:
> Brantley Coile, founder
> Coraid, Inc.
> brantley at coraid.com
> 877 548 7200
> 565 Research Drive
> Athens, GA 30605
> http://www.coraid.com/
>
>
>
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