SMB/LAB NAS Review
Intro
In the beginning of this year I, was looking for a new NAS for my home lab. I was curious to what was possible with NAS devices these days. I had a QNAP TS110 back then so I knew something about the NAS-es and what they could do but that was home-use orientated.
So because of the search for a new NAS I thought; let’s share my research with you. And because I would blog about it; let’s do it properly and really test drive the different NASes. I approached 6 vendors that are active and known in the SOHO NAS market; Cisco, Drobo, Iomega, Netgear, QNAP and Synology. Only Drobo couldn’t help us out with a test unit in that period so they are excluded. All the other vendors were able to send us a test unit so thanks for that. Netgear even was so friendly to supply us with 4 proper disks that I could use during the tests, so kudos to Netgear for that!
This is the 3rd comparison that VirtualFuture releases. The previous 2 were comparison charts for Application Virtualization products. This is the first comparison that isn’t really virtualization based but intended for a wider audience. Because of that I’ve chosen not to release this as a whitepaper but as a series of blog posts; I hope you enjoy it! … Continue Reading
Time to vote for your favorite bloggers
First of all: Happy new year and I wish you all a fantastic 2010! In this first post of the year on Virtualfuture, I want to bring the latest survey of Eric Siebert’s top 25 “VMware and virtualization bloggers” to your attention. Currently Virtualfuture.info is ranked at number 17, which I’m very proud of. I’m not saying I deserve to be in the new upcoming top 25 of Virtualization bloggers, but if you like what we’re doing, our Application virtualization comparison chart for example or our event reports (VMworld, Synergy) and our regular blogging, please give Virtualfuture.info a vote as well.
VMware Virtual User group
Just a quick note to everyone who’s interested in VMware: Alan Renouf is taking an online survey to check whether it’s a good idea to start a Virtual VMware user group. Please visit his blog, it only takes 2 minutes.
VirtualFuture.info entered VMware vLaunchpad top 20!
To my surprise I noticed that VirtualFuture.info is now in Eric Siebert‘s Top 20 of virtualization blogs on his VMware vLaunchpad! VirtualFuture.info entered at number 19, so there is still room for improvement 
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VMware vLaunchpad is your one stop shop for all the best VMware resources, websites and blogs.
What I like especially about the VMware vLaunchpad is the vBar, where you can select the VMware documentation, admin tools and powershell scripts from a drop-down menu.
