For Seven10, expanding into cloud storage is a natural extension of its capabilities. It has been providing policy-based data management and migration solutions for years-enabling users to seamlessly store data on the most cost-effective tier based on a number of criteria. Leveraging Seven10 StorFirst EAS, users can now include the cloud as a viable storage tier-part of their arsenal of tools to help control storage sprawl, costs, and management overhead.
ESG forecasts that by 2015, 80% of all external networked storage shipment revenue will come from systems based on scale-out architectures.[1]Enterprise adoption is driven by the needs for improved scalability, performance, and provisioning as well as lower infrastructure and management costs. While high-end systems are largely accounting for the revenue shift, there is a corresponding shift in entry-level and midsize storage with newer vendors shipping systems based on scale-out architectures and midrange and entry systems being introduced by larger storage and systems vendors. Scale Computing is one of the former, and seems to be hitting the mark with its unified scale-out storage platform. Given its experience marketing enterprise-class storage to the SMB, the company is poised to do well with new "data center in a box" technology in this space.
This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of Scality RING Organic cloud storage powered by Intel servers, Intel enterprise Solid-State Disk, and Gnodal low-latency 10GbE switch technologies. Testing focused on the manageability, organic design, self-healing capabilities, and highly scalable object-based performance that cloud service providers are seeking.
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