Cloud Storage Support
VISI, a leading Minnesota-based regional provider of enterprise managed hosting services, has selected ParaScale software as the cloud storage platform to enable a transition into cloud services.
Jason Baker, CTO of VISI, says "After a detailed evaluation, we have selected ParaScale as the basis of our cloud storage offering. This is a critical decision for us, as this foundational technology is going to be with us for a long time". |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks is testing PCS to see how a private storage cloud might better the economics of its storage intensive infrastructure.
“We have been working with ParaScale since early in the beta process and we are impressed with the technology and flexibility of the software. Having evaluated many storage technologies over the years, we are optimistic about finding a potential solution that scales in capacity and performance and targets our content heavy workloads, all the while leveraging standard Linux hardware,” said Nick Bali, senior systems engineer at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Steve Kowalski, senior systems architect at Sony Pictures Imageworks said, “We have been able to leverage commodity economics in all parts of our infrastructure, but storage has been the holdout. After realizing benefits across workstations, render farms, and operating systems, we have the opportunity to see the benefits of commodity hardware in storage.”
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Carpathia Hosting, leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services, has deployed ParaScale software as the backend infrastructure of its cloud computing service to offer seamless integration of cloud and dedicated resources. Called Carpathia Cloud Orchestration™, the integrated cloud compute and storage platform aggregates storage from heterogeneous servers to form a massively scalable storage pool that can be viewed, accessed and managed from a single point.
“We have been working closely with ParaScale to allow us to blend the benefits of traditional hosted solutions with cloud technology” said Jon Greaves, chief technology officer of Carpathia Hosting. “We see tremendous demand from our customers for ‘cloud bursting’. We chose to integrate ParaScale Cloud Storage into the Carpathia Services Platform (CSP™) to provide customers with a seamless ability to burst into our InstantOn(SM) storage and compute cloud. It's a very clever piece of technology. We have to blend a physical piece of infrastructure with a virtual infrastructure running the cloud. ParaScale is the storage bus for us. It allows me to mount a file system on a Unix box, and it has the same file system exposed on the cloud to virtual machines running on VMware or whatever the customer wants to use."
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Stanford Genome Technology Center trialed PCS to more affordably and efficiently manage huge volumes of genomic data.
"The latest generation of gene sequencers starting to be delivered now generate two to three orders more data per run,” said Dr Baback Gharizadeh, research associate at the Stanford Genome Technology Center. “We are always looking for affordable, practical ways to store these volumes of valuable data. Our evaluations of ParaScale's cloud storage solution lead us to believe that it has the scale and economy to handle our genomic data, and it is easy enough for our research scientists to manage. " |
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OC-3 Networks selected PCS to solve the storage challenges their customers were facing and proactively provide innovative alternatives.
“After a competitive evaluation, we have selected ParaScale as the basis of our cloud storage solution, said OC-3 Networks CEO,
Ilan Mishan. "We were particularly impressed by the fact that ParaScale delivers a complete solution including access, a comprehensive storage repository and integration and manageability in the context of our existing systems." |
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Other Resources to Consider
If you are looking for an introduction and overview of cloud storage, visit the What is Cloud Storage section of the library.
If you are looking for the technology differences between a public cloud storage and private cloud storage solution, and
how these solutions differ from other storage offerings, visit the Cloud Storage Technology section of the library.
For cloud storage white papers and audio / video guides to ParaScale, visit the ParaScale Cloud Storage section of the library.
If you are ready to download a trial of ParaScale and build a storage cloud, visit the Evaluating ParaScale section of the library.
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