Tag: MaxiScale

The Public Cloud: Friend or Foe for Storage Vendors, John Webster blog post

By John Webster, Wednesday, August 11th 2010

Analyst Blogs

www.cnet.com/data-driven Last year, storage vendors were all about cloud. They saw major-league opportunities in the private, public, hybrid, and federated versions. No cloud was too big or too small. In fact, because clouds were "infinitely scalable," there was no limit...

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MaxiScale and the emergence of software-defined storage, CNET Data-driven by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, October 7th 2009

Analyst Blogs

For the last two decades, RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) controllers have ruled the storage world. RAID has been required for data protection in disk arrays. RAID schemes (RAID 0,1,6 10, etc.) reside on RAID controllers baked into disk...

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