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ParaScale Cloud Storage - Archives
Sep 5, 2008: InformationWeek In the Cloud, Architectures Matter There is a common statement when talking with members of the cloud community, that the user should not be concerned with what is the architecture of the cloud, however, details do matter. Aug 29, 2008: ByteandSwitch Bill Gates High on Cloud Storage Microsoft co-founder thinks cloud storage will advance faster than cloud computing Aug 26, 2008: ITbusinessEdge.com Hosted cloud services like Amazon’s EC2 continue to garner most of the headlines, but the prospect of internal cloud architectures – those located behind the firewall – is gaining credence as the next major phase of enterprise evolution. Aug 25, 2008: Press Release ParaScale and Storage Switzerland to Present 'Cloud Storage 101' ParaScale, Inc. a startup offering cloud storage software solutions, and Storage Switzerland, an analyst firm focused on the virtualization and storage marketplaces, will co-host a free webinar entitled, 'Cloud Storage 101' on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 12:00 pm PT/2:00 CT/3:00 ET. Aug 23, 2008: Blocks & Files Architecting Cloud Storage Solutions Clustered NAS systems have been around for the better part of a decade. This article reviews different architectural approaches to building a cloud or massively scalable NAS system, and is relevant to enterprise IT managers looking to build a private cloud for their consumption, or for service providers looking to build public clouds to offer storage as a service. Aug 9, 2008: InformationWeek Private cloud products include 3Tera's grid operating system, ParaScale's disk-storage aggregation software, and Cassatt's resource-pooling technology. "Perhaps you should reconsider your terminology. Cloud is an architecture, not a service," writes Mike Maxey, ParaScale's director of product management. ParaScale Named to Network World’s “Ten Data Storage Companies to Watch” List ParaScale, Inc., announced today that it has been named to Network World‘s list of “10 Data Storage Companies to Watch.” The companies selected by Network World, a leading enterprise technology publication, are recognized for their innovation in the data storage market. The publication currently features the companies and the technologies they offer in the August 4 edition. Aug 4, 2008: BusinessWeek How Cloud Computing Is Changing The World "Some analysts say cloud computing represents a sea change in the way computing is done in corporations. Merrill Lynch (MER) estimates that within the next five years, the annual global market for cloud computing will surge to $95 billion.....Because companies have such a large investment in existing technology infrastructure, many people think there will be a hybrid approach where companies will do some of their computing internally, possibly in a private cloud, while other tasks will be offloaded to the public cloud." Jul 23, 2008: Press Release CUPERTINO, CA - July 23, 2008 — ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions for deep content archives and rich-media content in traffic-intense applications, is pleased to announce the formation of an advisory board and its first appointments with members from Google, Gorilla Nation, and University of California. Jul 7, 2008: InformationWeek "For businesses, don't take the approach of "Why should I care what storage my storage provider uses." While many of them may offer guarantees around data loss, if its gone they can't replace it, and a financial compensation may not be enough. Especially as you begin to put more and more data in the cloud, you should be aware of what type of plumbing the cloud uses." July 2, 2008: BloggingStocks ParaScale makes rain from the "cloud" "Over the past couple of years, major players like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have invested in the so-called "cloud."...Well, there is an alternative: ParaScale. The company sells cloud software that you can install on your own servers." Jul 3, 2008: InternetNews.com Pretty soon online storage won't cost anything given latest technologies. While two startups are targeting the cloud for rolling out extremely cheap storage platforms, they're using different technologies to make it happen. .Parascale's software turns commodity Linux servers into online storage nodes costing less than a piece of Bazooka gum these days -- about 25 to 50 cents per gigabyte June 26, 2008: Storage Switzerland "The emerging cloud storage solutions like Nirvanix and ParaScale, are starting to have an impact. The ability to build disk pools with massive scale that rivals tape now exists." Jun 25, 2008: ChannelWeb NetApp Exec Moves To Scalable Storage Startup "..solution providers ... should find this to be an easy sell, especially since customers can use old existing servers to run the software: - ParaScale CEO June 23, 2008: TechCrunchIT ParaScale Raises $11.37 Million For Cloud Storage "Cloud storage is becoming increasingly popular as corporations forgo building their own traditional server farms in favor of managed solution like ParaScale." June 23, 2008: Byte & Switch ParaScale Picks Up $11M for Cloud Storage "With ParaScale, in under six months, you would re-coup the cost of something like Amazon S3 - ParaScale CEO Jun 23, 2008: GIGAOM Of ParaScale & Other Cloud Computing News "This approach to build high volume storage systems has received a lot of attention, thanks to the success of Google File System" Jun 11, 2008: Blocks and Files Start-up ParaScale aims to crack-the-code for cloud storage A startup called ParaScale aims to provide software enabling content providers to build their own peta-byte sized cloud storage data farms. 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 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 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." |