Red Hat and HP Establish Linux Storage Lab

Rob writes "Linux distributor Red Hat has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard to create a new performance test lab to help customers deploy enterprise storage across Linux environments. The lab will focus on performance and integration testing in order to produce best practices and solutions guides, the companies said, and will also enable customers to preview new technological developments."

Re:i wish ...

[Anonymous Coward]

then:
mysql on 420MB second-hand IDE drives ,
then:
postgress on RAID-1 configured with two 5.25" fdd drives

(I don't think storage performance lab is about stuffing IDE disks in low end server and measuring performance)

Re:It's about time that...

[Anonymous Coward]

I predict that soon the users community will shift/accept it even at home.

Oh, absolutely! It's precisely concerns about support for Clariion and RAC that have been keeping home users off Linux!

Use?

[mayhemt]

Can we use this to deploy MS' patches? that would be its regression testing...(Just a thought!!)

can't do it. microsoft tax.

[jasonhamilton]

MS would throw a fit. Anyone who doesn't want windows on their box is clearly going to pirate windows. Therefor the logic is to charge you even more when you don't get windows preinstalled as you're going to be pirating it anyway.