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Submission + - Redundant commodity hardware for Linux SANs

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Dishwasha

on Thursday June 19, 2008 @12:58PM

Dishwasha writes: "The capabilities offered by The iSCSI Enterprise Target Project and LVM2 really make commodity SAN solutions for clustering or remote raw storage a possibility. iSCSI or Fiberchannel SAN equipment has typically been very expensive and most of the lower cost equipment has minimal expansion flexibility that you would typically get from a high dollar EMC solution. I see one of the bars to entry is hardware redundancy not at the disk level, but at the processing level. Even the lower end Dell/EMC CX3 and AX100/150 solutions have redundant storage processors and in some cases, backplane redundancy to the disks. Is there any commodity i386/x64 hardware out there that provides CPU redundancy rather than just multi-processing? If so, does anybody have any experience using this with Linux Hotplug CPU Support? At least some of the commercial hardware SAN solutions require a full outage for service on a storage processor, but allowing for hot CPU, RAM, backplane, and controller would definately be a plus if anyone has any experience with getting these components redundant on the i386/x64 platform."

Submission + - BMI madness

Submitted by Dishwasha on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:19PM

Dishwasha writes: I have several customers that have recently received a notice from the Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) that they were in violation of the music rights which BMI owns. They were sited that they had "Music on Hold; TVs in Public Waiting Rooms, in Therapy Sessions, In Fitness Centers, in Operating Rooms, and in Patient Rooms." Apparently none of these applied except for having a TV in waiting rooms and patient rooms. BMI is demanding my customers to sign an agreement for a "Health Care Multiple Use License". More recently one of my customers is a hospital in a town consisting of a population of less than 800 and they have been directly invoiced by the BMI for the use of TVs in public waiting areas.

Is there any legal advice, articles, or documentation the community can offer me that I can share with my customers? Does BMI hold any legal right to claim fees on publicly broadcasted material that is receiving royalties through advertisement that is not being charged by the accused to their customers nor directly generating any revenue or profit, but is simply accessed via a common device used to gain access to public services (i.e. Broadcasted Television) and not being duplicated in any illegal fashion?

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