Nov, 2009 : ParaScale Introduces Open Private Cloud Storage Platform
📅 - Software transforms commodity Linux servers into low-cost, scalable storage tier for enterprises and service providers.
ParaScale, Inc., a provider of cloud storage solutions, yesterday introduced ParaScale Cloud Storage software (PCS) R2.0. The company states that the new release targets enterprise storage administrators who must economically scale capacity and performance, and service providers who want to offer a variety of storage cloud services. It avers that its open solution leverages any commodity hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS or CentOS, and can integrate applications directly onto storage nodes. PCS R2.0 also provides integration capabilities into virtualized environments and web services.
The company explains that its latest release of ParaScale Cloud Storage software reflects the growing realization by global customers that existing approaches to managing their stored data assets prevent them from rapidly delivering a pool of storage that easily scales capacity and performance independently and economically. It further states that PCS R2.0 removes these obstacles as a software-only solution that can be downloaded from the web and applied to any standard Linux platform to enable commodity servers to be clustered together as a file repository, as a storage cloud with massive capacity and parallel throughput, or as a disaster recovery option for virtualized environments.
"The power and scale of cloud compute and storage begins to make sense in an open and interoperable environment where resources can be provisioned as needed, any commodity hardware can be added to grow the cloud including repurposed servers, and new applications can be leveraged to create a virtualized data center," explained Arun Taneja, Principal, Taneja Group, "ParaScale provides a unique open alternative to other cloud storage platforms and is developing an ecosystem of partners to integrate applications like back-up and disaster recovery, content management, and data migration on its storage servers."
"Storage teams in 2010 are going to face the issue of getting ready for growth with budgets and headcount frozen at 2009 levels. How are they going to pull off this magic? By going outside the box, by looking at technologies that the innovators are using and not old workhorse NAS technologies from 1990," said Sajai Krishnan, CEO, ParaScale. "Release 2.0 represents a significant step to provide our customers with a simple solution to store and manipulate any type of Tier II file data on higher-performance, more scalable, more accessible, and cheaper storage. Our customer's finance department is especially going to appreciate that for the first time the storage team can repurpose hardware, and buy disk drives at any computer retail outlet to store some of their enterprise data reliably."
"Our goal at Even Enterprises has always been to be a leading edge server, storage and virtualization solution provider so when we started looking for the next growth step in our area of technology the answer was simple: Cloud Storage," explained Esti Even, Owner of Even Enterprises. "We were looking for a virtualized storage solution equal to that of our primary compute virtualization solution, VMware. When we decided which horse to ride the decision took a little more work. Our criteria included finding a solution that fit into our customer base which looks for mid- to high-end storage, had already proven itself as reliable and cost competitive, and took advantage of our strength as a leading white box storage provider. ParaScale turned out to be the clear choice."
ParaScale, Inc., a provider of cloud storage solutions, yesterday introduced ParaScale Cloud Storage software (PCS) R2.0. The company states that the new release targets enterprise storage administrators who must economically scale capacity and performance, and service providers who want to offer a variety of storage cloud services. It avers that its open solution leverages any commodity hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS or CentOS, and can integrate applications directly onto storage nodes. PCS R2.0 also provides integration capabilities into virtualized environments and web services.
The company explains that its latest release of ParaScale Cloud Storage software reflects the growing realization by global customers that existing approaches to managing their stored data assets prevent them from rapidly delivering a pool of storage that easily scales capacity and performance independently and economically. It further states that PCS R2.0 removes these obstacles as a software-only solution that can be downloaded from the web and applied to any standard Linux platform to enable commodity servers to be clustered together as a file repository, as a storage cloud with massive capacity and parallel throughput, or as a disaster recovery option for virtualized environments.
"The power and scale of cloud compute and storage begins to make sense in an open and interoperable environment where resources can be provisioned as needed, any commodity hardware can be added to grow the cloud including repurposed servers, and new applications can be leveraged to create a virtualized data center," explained Arun Taneja, Principal, Taneja Group, "ParaScale provides a unique open alternative to other cloud storage platforms and is developing an ecosystem of partners to integrate applications like back-up and disaster recovery, content management, and data migration on its storage servers."
"Storage teams in 2010 are going to face the issue of getting ready for growth with budgets and headcount frozen at 2009 levels. How are they going to pull off this magic? By going outside the box, by looking at technologies that the innovators are using and not old workhorse NAS technologies from 1990," said Sajai Krishnan, CEO, ParaScale. "Release 2.0 represents a significant step to provide our customers with a simple solution to store and manipulate any type of Tier II file data on higher-performance, more scalable, more accessible, and cheaper storage. Our customer's finance department is especially going to appreciate that for the first time the storage team can repurpose hardware, and buy disk drives at any computer retail outlet to store some of their enterprise data reliably."
"Our goal at Even Enterprises has always been to be a leading edge server, storage and virtualization solution provider so when we started looking for the next growth step in our area of technology the answer was simple: Cloud Storage," explained Esti Even, Owner of Even Enterprises. "We were looking for a virtualized storage solution equal to that of our primary compute virtualization solution, VMware. When we decided which horse to ride the decision took a little more work. Our criteria included finding a solution that fit into our customer base which looks for mid- to high-end storage, had already proven itself as reliable and cost competitive, and took advantage of our strength as a leading white box storage provider. ParaScale turned out to be the clear choice."
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