Home brew solutions are good for a small business, but once you move into multi-terabyte solutions, you should consider a more Enterprise ready solution. If I were in your position, I would consider a dedicated storage area network device such as an EMC VNX or NetApp storage array. Both handle multi-terabyte solutions well. Both are also easy to manage and integrate well into most network environments (CIFS / NFS / FC / FCoE / iSCSI). If you are looking for just NFS / CIFS, Isilon also makes a very fast and scalable NAS device that is super easy to manage.

I would agree with this assessment. Looks like a control DDoS, but would need to review firewall logs. Would presume this site would also have IDS / IPS measures in place, along with DDoS mitigation.

We have known for sometime now that exercise and diet are the way to lose weight. You must adjust both, I know this from personal experience.

During my testing of Win7 RTM a month ago, I performed an upgrade of Vista Ultimate to Win7 Ultimate. I had to remove iTunes, my Anti-virus software, VMWare Workstation prior to the upgrade. I was however able to reinstall them after the successful upgrade. The upgrade did take about 3 hours though. I also lost all of my Windows Vista Ultimate features, such as Dream Scene and some games that came with Vista Ultimate like Texas Hold'em