UK Blazers

*Petabytes on a budget* - Building on the Backblaze Storage Pod design. Taking the design forward and getting them made in the UK and shipped across the EU

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

@StorageMojo Could you please give us a shout out, Backblaze Storage Pods available in the UK / EU bit.ly/r6fDoJ

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

It has been a long time but @backblaze Storage Pods are available in the UK again http://t.co/6f5XDMG

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

is in Kent building up 8 @Backblaze Storage Pods, have a few spare if anyone wants.

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

build went well except for a cut finger and being shown up by John "let me do it!" Hughes. I do however know where *all* the bits go now

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

@StorageMojo - yeah, metadata servers or whatever, real shame

[Tim Lossen @tlossen]

my "Hadoop in a Box" talk from BerlinBuzzwords is (finally) online: http://www.blip.tv/file/3810573

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

Hey @linbit_drbd , I should have said "Free Software high availability solutions for data storage" or some such, keep up the good work!

[LINBIT @linbit]

@ukblazers may we suggest that neither DRBD nor sheepdog are filesystems? Also, you may want to look into GFS2, OCFS2.

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

needs to get looking at clustered filesystems - Gluster, Lustre, pNFS, HDFS, MogileFS, Hammer, DRBD, sheepdog. Anything else?

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

hey @StorageMojo First run complete and test build done on the Backblaze Storage Pods in the UK, http://tinyurl.com/UKB-test please RT!

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

has done a test build of the @backblaze Storage Pods, see http://tinyurl.com/UKB-test , a few spare - get in touch if you want to buy some.

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

first run due to be fabricated on the 28th, some Pods spare, get in touch if interested. http://ukblazers.com/2010/07/21/first-run/

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

is due to receive the first run on the 28th! Took longer than expected but its happening!

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

-Updated @backblaze Storage Pod Design Sent To Be Fabbed In The UK , few minor tweeks to the design,models available at http://bit.ly/dsuZex

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

- New blog post, scheduling the first run, last chance to get involved. http://bit.ly/bgP7Px

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

- new blog post, UK sources for the other @Backblaze Storage Pod components. http://ukblazers.com/2010/04/06/uk-parts/ . First run soon!

[Backblaze @backblaze]

@ukblazers That's great! You are just selling cases, not the entire systems? Good luck!!

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

@backblaze - yes, good to go, will ship over EU. Will be scheduling a run in black in 2 weeks. Pricing here http://tinyurl.com/yaxp3qc

[UK Blazers @ukblazers]

- If you want to buy a @Backblaze Storage Pod in the EU please get in touch in the next 2 weeks