ParaScale is an ideal solution for service providers who are looking to add a hosted public cloud storage service to their offerings. With easy to build storage clouds that can start small and scale to petabytes a service provider can create a differentiated offering in minutes. ParaScale leverages standard protocols like HTTP, WebDAV and NFS so customers can easily take advantage of shared storage offerings. There is no need to recompile or change applications, simply mount the storage cloud as you would any other device.

A ParaScale cloud is pooled storage with virtual file systems for secure access. The ParaScale cloud storage software is designed to support 1000’s of virtual file systems that share one physical pool of hardware. You have the flexibility to purchase this hardware from your trusted commodity storage vendor, thus providing amazing flexibility and security while keeping costs low. Your customers can share the underlying hardware but cannot access each other’s data. Secure file systems, each with their own authentication rules, prevent mingling of customer access or data.

By using virtual file systems and thin provisioning you can implement just-in-time storage purchases. For example, a 10TB virtual file system can be created for a single customer against 5TBs of shared physical disk. Only the data that is copied to the file system takes up physical space. Overtime the 5TB volume capacity will increase. Once it hits a specified threshold an alert is triggered to remind the administrator to add to the storage pool. New disks with greater capacity and lower prices can be added saving money and delaying costly early over-provisioning.

Service providers can leverage the ParaScale eco-structure to deploy a hosted cloud storage solution. ParaScale is building a base of enterprise customers who are creating private storage clouds inside the firewall. As these clouds grow and the enterprise looks for an offsite backup storage solution we will recommend our service provider customers.

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