StorageMojo ran an article this year touting Wasabi’s Storage Builder® as the ‘coolest product at Storage Network World. From the article:
The first is Wasabi Systems the maker of a small (~1″x 3″) flash drive loaded with software that plugs into a motherboard’s IDE port and turns an ordinary pizza box server into either a NAS device, an IP-SAN device or both, with a software RAID module as an option. This all runs on Wasabi’s proprietary version of BSD, called Wasabi Certified BSD (please, let’s not get into a flame war about BSD vs Linux or GPL vs BSD licensing - I’m not endorsing or dissing either — just reporting). What’s cool is that in a few minutes a standard server (get Wasabi’s support list here) can become a NAS or iSCSI device. This is a natural for the SMB market where cost-effectiveness, ease of use and implementation speed are critical. It looks like DataCore’s SanSymphony product done right, i.e. on a stable Unix base.
Wasabi- Powerful Stuff!
