Wow it’s been a long time since our last release, and as you can imagine, we’ve been busy. With our release candidate 1.0, you should experience stable software. The core software comes from our commercial release, which has been tested extensively. We mainly tested a dsNet with a width of 8, and a threshold of 6, meaning, you can experience 2 simultaneous unavailable Slicestors, and still bit-perfectly recreate your data.

Two areas that are improved:

• iSCSI target stabilization.  We now have windows support as well.

• Adverse network handling. Your network is up, your network is down. We’ve worked diligently to elegantly handle unavailability scenarios while still providing seamless access to your data.

Personally, and someone who’s been here from the start (January 2005), it is very exciting to see our technology stabilize and become available through open source.

We recommend you try this release for yourself. Please let us know how it works for you.

Thanks!