“Noemi Greyzdorf, a research manager at market researcher IDC, says even conservative storage managers looking for ways to reduce spending on disks will see the appeal of technology that can "unify multiple raw devices into a pool of storage. This can be a more efficient way to provision and provide storage."

“Cloud storage is an evolving story and in some cases a new marketing term to describe technology concepts that harken back to the 1990s with application service provisioning (ASPs) and even to the 1970s with service bureau computing,” said Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International and founder of the Data Management Institute. “Smart folks have ignored the industry hype up to now, but ParaScale is worth a closer look. Instead of simply offering outsourcing by another name, ParaScale is trying to expose an alternative software stack that can be leveraged by companies internally, as well as external service providers, to deliver services in a predictable, scalable and secure way.”

“Even in a slowing economy, data growth continues and IT managers struggle with cost and capacity challenges every day. Today, we are seeing an explosion in digital documents and rich media in all types of businesses. This presents significant challenges to storage teams who need to account for rapid scaling of capacity and performance in an environment that scrutinizes every capital expense,” said Terri McClure, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “ParaScale Cloud Storage harnesses the power and cost-advantages of a standard Linux server with clustering software into an infrastructure solution that addresses the need to cost-efficiently store and manage huge amounts of unstructured data.”

"Parascale customers have the ability to roll their own storage cloud with a combination of performance, scalability and ease of management that is unmatched in its price range," said Joseph Martins, managing director, Data Mobility Group. "Its software-only solution provides massively scalable, affordable storage with an eye toward long-term manageability, sustainability, non-disruptive growth and hardware reuse."

“While public storage clouds have gained early traction, enterprise customers are nervous about security and privacy in a multi-tenant, 3rd party owned infrastructure.The good news is that the very same clustered, object-oriented file system technology behind public clouds is available shrink-wrapped from ParaScale,"said Deni Connor, principal analyst, StorageStrategies NOW. "Because the ParaScale cloud can run on any standard Linux server, customers can benefit from the same commodity economics and scale out technology. It's even possible to repurpose existing servers that may be unsuitable for the latest server virtualization project, but perfectly fine in a private storage cloud."

"ParaScale is one of the few vendors delivering real technology for cloud storage today. By offering a software based solution, IT organizations are able to repurpose their existing servers and disk drives and build their own cloud infrastructure for less than the cost of a traditional midrange array," said Russ Fellows, managing partner, Evaluator Group. "ParaScale's hardware agnostic software provides a flexible approach to building cloud storage that enables companies to start small and scale to multiple petabytes."