Oct 5, 2007: SearchStorage

ParaScale Comes Out of Stealth

SearchStorage.com noted that storage startup ParaScale came out of stealth, hitting the storage scene with software that "makes high-performance parallel file system grids using commodity Linux x86 server hardware."

Oct 4, 2007: Storage Mojo

What's Different About ParaScale

In his popular StorageMojo blog, Data Mobility Group analyst Robin Harris interviews ParaScale's CTO Cameron Bahar. In response to what makes Parascale's solution different, the answers are innovation - with patents to prove it - ease of use, scalability, support of NFS, HTTP, and FTP protocol, and features like automatic file migration.

Sep 27, 2007: Byte and Switch

2008 Will Be the Year of the Gargantuan NAS

Among the post-show predictions by Byte and Switch editor Mary Jander was that "2008 will be the year of the gargantuan NAS" as enterprises grab onto the concept of shared file systems that link to modular storage. Among the examples cited in support of the prediction was ParaScale's software-only storage announcement.

Sep 25, 2007: StorageMojo

StorageMojo Reports That Parascale is "Well-Positioned"

Commenting on the launch of ParaScale's beta Virtual Storage Network, Robin Harris, Data Mobility Group analyst and author of the StorageMojo blog, observes that "Parascale is well-positioned to take advantage of the interest" as the credibility of the concept of storage clusters grows in 2008.

Sep 10, 2007: Computerworld

Expanding Storage: Everything Must Stay!

Computerworld editor Gary Anthes explains that "The cost of disk storage is so low that the easiest thing for companies to do is to just hold on to all their data." Over the past eight years, a terabyte of enterprise-class disk storage has dropped in price from $200k to about $5k. "Even the dramatic drop in the cost of processing, as predicted by Moore's Law, doesn't happen that fast."

Jun 7, 2007: Mark Lewis Blog

Rich Media Comes of Age

EMC Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Mark Lewis, writes that "Rich Media Comes of Age." Learn Mark's perspective on the future of non-database content which he projects will grow from 80% of the world's information today to 95% of all information by 2010.

Jun 4, 2007: Hubert Yoshida Blog

New Storage Architectures Needed

Hitachi CTO, Hubert Yoshida, explains in his blog that the coming deluge of unstructured data demands new storage architectures. He writes that, "In order to meet this growing demand, we must change the way we store data. Storage architectures that were designed 20 years ago with static cache configurations can not meet the scalability requirements."

Apr 19, 2007: StoragMojo

StorageMojo Perspective

Robin Harris, Data Mobility Group analyst and author of the StorageMojo blog, compares the historical growth of data storage for OLTP applications with the current surge in unstructured data: "The combination of pervasive high-resolution media, consumer-driven storage needs, expensive random I/0s and cheap bandwidth point to a new style of I/O and storage." He describes the "storage workload of the 21st century: Large file sizes, bandwidth intensive, sequential reads and writes."