RE: [PLUG] Help with Lawsuit

["Sean Cummins" <sean@scummins.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-
> admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Mark Dominus
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 12:30 PM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help with Lawsuit
> 
> gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>:
> > If I'm going to want to read the whole of a piece of data from
> > beginning to end every time I use it (do we use *any* data like this
> > on computers any more?[1]),
> 
> Mass mailings.  Printing checks for the biweekly payroll.  Billing.

One of the big applications I see for this today is video
production/editing..  Although there does seem to be a pretty large
installed base of configs that are using tape for this kind of work, it
seems that a lot of people are phasing it out in favor of cheaper disks
arrays.  I'm actually going to be replacing an existing tape-based video
processing system with a Serial ATA Clariion array next week.

Avalon (http://www.ava.com) is the product we use to make this work.. Avalon
can also act as an HSM product (Hierarchical Storage Management, see
http://tinyurl.com/atz0) to automatically offload less frequently accessed
data to cheaper, slower media (like tape or optical media), and then
retrieve it transparently when someone/something accesses it.  I doubt
anyone would want to use this for a web based app though.. :)

Regards,

- Sean



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