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Scale Computing: an alternative hyperconverged solution

14 Marzo 2016
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Reading Time: 3 minutesScale Computing is an international company, with the HQ at Indianapolis and several offices worldwide (Silicon Valley, London, Paris, Toronto, Dubai). Their HC3® platform is an hyperconverged solution that can be used for small- and medium-sized businesses but also in some enterprise departments with a simple (and different) approach to virtualization and storage. I’ve wrote about their solution one year ago (see the post Scale Computing make virtualization simple (and different)), and was interesting met them during the last A3 Communications Technology Live!

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Openio: uno storage “vicino” alle applicazioni

11 Marzo 2016
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Reading Time: 4 minutesOpenIO è una startup francese fondata nel 2015 (quindi da poco) da 7 esperti di infrastruttura ed in particolare di gestione di grossi mail server. La sede principale è a Lille (Francia), ma hanno anche un ufficio a San Francisco (come del resto fanno molte startup nell’IT). Durante l’ultimo A3 Communications Technology Live! ho avuto il piacere di rivedere alcune di queste persone, che già avevo conosciuto qualche mese fa durante l’IT Press Tour #17. Apparentemente potrebbero ricadere nella solita azienda di object storage (che tanto va di moda, a volte senza una vera e propria strategia di mercato […]

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Infinit: a SDS solution for hybrid cloud

18 Febbraio 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutesInfinit has launched its second product, a decentralized file storage platform, making it possible for IT managers to aggregate storage resources across on-premise servers and the cloud into a flexible, secure, fault-tolerant and scalable file system. Infinit’s goal is to disrupt legacy storage solutionsusing a software-defined solution that makes the product entirely hardware agnostic, with the potential to reduce the total cost of ownership for a storage system, but also drastically reduces the setup time and complexity associated with adopting a custom storage solution.

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Caringo unleashes Swarm 8 a storage for the cloud age

16 Febbraio 2016
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Reading Time: 4 minutesCaringo is a storage related company founded in 2005 to change the economics of storage by designing software from the ground up to solve the issues associated with data protection, management, organization and search at massive scale. Founders background on object storage were really solid, considering that they were involved in the EMC Centera project and their solution (Swarm) is quite interesting with some unique capabilities.

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AoE strikes back with outpace.IO

18 Gennaio 2016
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Reading Time: 4 minutesStorage is a cool topic, but in most cases we just see software product on commodity hardware, that it’s fine: you push all the tecnology in the software layer (using the SDS approach), but sometimes it’s nice think about at some low level improvement or innovation. This is the case of outpace.IO, a technology manufacturing company that want to continue customer success with AoE (ATA over Ethernet) technology- The company is based in the United States with the headquartered in Georgia and a technical and operational office in Paris, France.

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OpenIO: an Open Source object storage software

15 Gennaio 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: on 24 July 2020, OVHcloud acquired OpenIO! OpenIO is a startup founded in 2015 by a team of 7 co-founders, experts in mail and data infrastructures. The headquarter is located in Lille, France, and there is also an OpenIO office in San Francisco. They start with the need to to store huge amounts of relatively small files produced by end-users like emails, eventually using a large storage capacity, but always accessed with the lowest latency. Also, there was the need for maximum availability as Service Level Agreements were stricts for these critical end-user services. Object storage can […]

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Atlantis hyperconverged solutions for ROBO

13 Gennaio 2016
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAtlantis Computing has announced the HyperScale CX-4 product targeted for distributed datacenters and also the ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office) scenarios. The CX-4 appliance is a two-node hyperconverged integrated system with compute, all-flash storage, networking and virtualization designed for ROBO and micro data centers. The hardware configuration include two nodes with 4 TB of effective storage capacity and 48 compute cores in a compact 2U footprint, available with different appliances brads: Atlantis (with Supermicro hardware), Dell (with the support of the FX2 platform), HP, Lenovo and Cisco (this partnership was added during the last VMworld):

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