DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 14 - Acopia Networks

This last week Joe implemented the audio transcripts on Tech Tips, wrote a tech tip on iControl Marketing dissected, a forum post on how to detect DOS attempts. Jeff is recovering from a cold and comment on our plan to increase the flood of tech tips as well as Deb's tech tip on on iRules based on External Information that caused a nice banter between "the dueling Mac Vitties". Colin wrote a tech tip on "Avoiding Path Traversal" and is in the process of encoding some video from his recent trip to the UK. Deb points to some codeshare entries regarding Caching POSTS, Pool picking based on Cipher Strength, and a Super HTTP Monitor, SQL Monitor, and DHCP Monitor, as well as a short timeout HTTP monitor. Aside from being "Mr. Negative" this week, Don wrote a tech tip on using kSOAP2 and has his app running on a Blackberry!
Next, Nigel Burmeister, a Senior Product Manager with Acopia Networks, was kind enough to sit in for the rest of the podcast answering our questions on the newest member of F5's family of products.
Acopia is primarily about File Virtualization (a logical representation of physical resources). They break the bonds between the physical file storage systems (file servers and NAS devices) and the users and applications. It's hard to allow for growth when users increase or more storage is needed. Digital content creation is one of the biggest drivers of growth requirements. According to IDC, by 2010, we will be creating 988 Exabytes (That's 988 Billion Gigabytes) of digital content a year! He then talks about Storage Tiering and how it can be used to save storage and backup costs. Jeff asks what's a "WOW" feature and Nigel points to the architecture and how what they've done can't be replicated in stock software, and Colin attests to that fact....