Increase support hours @ germany office
Basically to get phone support from Australia involved calling Germany at night which sometimes is apropicate.
But idealy I would like to see the hours for the support engineers increased/or open a Oceanic Support office. I know after speaking to various distributors of Open-E in Australia this is currently a major challenge and impacts local sales.
-Adam
Single Instance Storage for all volume types
Single Instance Storage (SIS) / Deduplication is a becoming a significant issue/marketing point, due to the explosion of data storage/capacity requirements.
This is especially true as the adoption of server (and coming/now desktops) virtualization is now growing into middle/lower-middle tier businesses. If you have 20 virtualized Win2008 servers. Do you really need to use 20 times the disk space to store 20 copies of the same Windows EXEs/DLLs?
A number of SAN solutions offer this feature including; MS Storage Server, Falconstor/Nexxan, NetApp and EMC.
Another nice feature would be
transparent file compression in the NAS.
The processor is hardly working and on-the-fly compression and CRC checks would enable some really tight file stacking...
G