Storage In Marlborough

Scale-Out Storage Provides Performance Edge As Capacity Increases

It is being embraced both by vendors who have scrambled to acquire the necessary intellectual property, and by customers concerned about the performance bottlenecks that come from their ever-increasing data stores.

Scale-out storage is a way of non-disruptively increasing the performance throughput of networked storage even as capacity is increased. It uses clusters of storage nodes, each with its own processing power, storage capacity, and I/O bandwidth so that as capacity is added, the processing power and bandwidth increase at the same time.

However, when presenting the technology to customers, just remember not to call it "scale-out storage," warn solution providers.

Customers are increasingly asking for the capability, but they don't yet know the term "scale-out storage," said Greg Knieriemen, vice president of marketing at Chi, a Cleveland, Ohio-based solution provider focusing on the storage industry.

"They call it high-performance storage, or high-performance file storage," Knieriemen said.

It is a technology which customers ask for every day, even if they don't know the term "scale-out storage," said Jamie Shepard, executive vice president of technology solutions at ICI, a Marlborough, Mass.-based solution provider.

"Customers don't know they're asking for it," Shepard said. "But every time they speak, they're asking for it. They're asking for storage that can grow and expand without limitations."

Scale-Out Vs. Scale-Up Storage

The interest in scale-out storage stems from limited performance and network capabilities of traditional "scale-up" storage architectures as customers look to handle either larger data volumes or larger amounts of data as a single system.

As the amount of data stored within a scale-up storage system increases, performance of that storage eventually starts to decrease. This is because increasing the capacity of a typical storage array means pushing and pulling more data through a storage controller which eventually reaches limits in terms of its processing capabilities and network bandwidth.

As the processing and bandwidth performance become constrained, the overall performance of storage becomes a bottleneck.

Wikibon Mastermind Alliance Taps Leading Storage Industry Experts ...

Marlborough, MA (PRWEB) April 2, 2009

Wikibon, the place where business technology professionals gather to solve challenging problems and share knowledge, today announced the Storage Industry Mastermind Alliance – SIM Alliance. The SIM Alliance is a collaboration of leading storage industry subject matter experts, consultants, bloggers and industry analysts that are “super contributors” to the Wikibon community. The Alliance leverages the power of social media and Peer Incite™ to create value added services for Wikibon constituents.

“We’ve formed the Mastermind Alliance by collaborating with the best independent experts in the industry,” said David Vellante, a Wikibon founder. “Our members and clients are benefiting from the deep understanding these professionals possess and our collective belief that the power of we is greater than the power of me.”

The Alliance began as an informal collaboration in December 2008 and has blossomed into an ongoing set of innovative business practices and value-added services that includes:

Active participation in Wikibon’s Peer Incite™ research meetings. Coordinated research collaborations on behalf of Wikibon’s user and vendor clients.

The ever-growing Alliance comprises the deep experience of research practitioners, consultants and experts, including the following individuals:

Nick Allen – Champions the Wikibon Storage Networks Portal and is a founder of the Tod Point Group. Former Gartner Research VP and expert in all things storage including data protection and cloud storage. Reach Nick on Twitter at stor2.

David Floyer – Wikibon’s resident CTO and heads up Wikibon’s Energy Lab, working with utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric and others. Former IDC Research VP, former IBMer. Reach David on Twitter at dfloyer.

Gary MacFadden – Heads up Wikibon’s Information Management Portal. Former Meta Group, Giga Group, IDC and co-founder of Robert Frances Group. Reach Gary on Twitter at GaryGMacFadden.

Dennis Martin – Leads Wikibon’s Performance Lab Portal, founder of Demartek, a performance analysis firm, former Evaluator Group, STK. Reach Dennis on Twitter at demartek.

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