More cloud storage news today, as ParaScale is offering software that allows companies to turn a network of commodity Linux servers into a cloud storage platform. Sony Pictures Imageworks and Stanford Genome Technology Center are testing it with an eye towards using it to manage their massive image rich storage needs.
Good coverage of the announcement by Lucas Mearian at Computerworld and Dave Raffo at SearchStorage.
In the press release, Noemi Greyzdorf, storage analyst at IDC is quoted saying “‘ParaScale’s flexible, object-oriented file system allowing scale and ease of management across different pools of storage and will enable content and general tier2 storage deployments to achieve new levels of economy and flexibility.’”
On a related note, Chris Evans has written a thoughtful post on cloud storage and availability questions on his Storage Architect blog.
Looking forward to hearing the speculation across the blogosphere about what if anything this vendor is offering that’s new.
