Pogo Tech Blog

The Linux and Open Source community is a great group of people!  We would not have the amazing array of open solutions that are available to us today without everyone working together and sharing their knowledge to make Linux and Open Source the best they can be. Even the toughest IT challenges are no match…

Pogo has been part of some very exciting and groundbreaking industry changes over the course of its “lifetime.” When Pogo was founded in 1999, we helped pioneer access to Linux by offering dual-boot Windows and Linux desktops, as well as fully-supported Linux rack mount servers. Later, in the mid-2000s, we evangelized the adoption of SATA…

Intelligently manage storage throughout your organization. Ideal workloads include hosted services, media streaming, data archiving, off-site disaster recovery or an application or file server. High Scalability ZFS NAS / SAN The StorageDirector Z2 Foundation gives network administrators a low-cost, scale-out storage platform to expand any NFS, CIFS, iSCSI or Fiber Channel network by up to…

Twin servers, that is! Good Things Come in Small Packages What are twin servers? In a nutshell, twin servers give you the same computing power for less rackspace — with the added bonus of a lower initial capital cost and increased energy efficiency. By combining multiple compute nodes into a single chassis, you can free…

Long, long ago in a data center far, far away, there was one choice for storage. Spinning media hard disks were the only option for fast storage, high-capacity storage, and anything in between. In that time, let’s just call it BSSD (Before Solid State Disk) there were only two ways to get more IOPs out of a…