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It’s not news that data storage requirements are exploding in Tier II. There are several scaling dimensions that storage administrators have to confront as a result:
1) Disk Size - helps you scale capacity. Additional storage space give you a place to put your growing data, but more data means more stress along the [...]

Software comes in layers.
At the bottom, there are mature technologies like TCP, HTTP, and NFS, where there is little innovation. In fact, innovation at the lower layers would be immensely disruptive and is therefore undesirable. Standards are very beneficial at the lower layers of the software stack, even when the technologies are imperfect. [...]

I wanted to add a post on an interesting problem that we hear quite often. Where do I go now that I have a tiered architecture that has hit its management and performance limits. I can’t keep moving data and guessing about user access. I can’t afford to stick everything in a Tier-1 NAS or [...]

In a previous post, I showed how Proprietary Hardware Costs Customers Money . If you’re smart enough to use ParaScale Cloud Storage software to store your data, you already know what I’m going to say:
PCS software saves customers money.
Let’s explore how PCS empowers you and consequently saves you money. PCS is a pure software [...]

Wayne Rash’s article “Is Cloud Computing Secure? Prove It” helps illustrate the logic every CIO should exercise in determining their public vs private cloud strategy. Security is clearly a major consideration.
How does the U.S. military provide IT security?
They put the computers in a locked room and they don’t let anything in, or [...]

Some service providers just plain “get it”. They use ParaScale Cloud Storage to give them a competitive advantage. For example, our newest service provider customer, OC-3 Networks, understands how PCS’s Just-In-Time provisioning can differentiate them in their highly competitive market (http://blog.parascale.com/?p=258).
They provide 10 gigabytes of free storage to their customers as a sweetener. [...]

Today is a pretty big day here at ParaScale. We’ve just announced version 2.0 of our Cloud Storage Platform. In the wake of recent private cloud announcements, ParaScale is taking a different approach in the market– a stark contrast to the thinly-veiled “lock-in” alliances we’ve seen. In a nutshell we’re open:
o Open hardware - [...]

In differential calculus, an inflection point is defined as the point on a curve at which the curvature changes sign. Put another way, it’s when the second derivative changes sign.
Andy Grove, in his book titled, “Only the Paranoid Survive”, talked about the interesting market/business/phenomenon known as “strategic inflection points”.  In brief, this is how he explains what [...]

Cameron Bahar will speak to attendees of Sys-Con’s Cloud Computing Conference and Expo about best practices in cloud storage, tomorrow, November 3, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. ParaScale will also demonstrate its Cloud Storage software during the conference in booth #123.
Hundreds of definitions from swarms of providers have [...]

Enterprises are struggling with ways to backup ever increasing amounts of data to tape. However, with backup windows staying constant, enterprises are moving to disk based backup, or D2D systems. But, traditional D2D systems are expensive because they consist of proprietary hardware and software, and do not scale well with increasing numbers of backup streams. [...]

The volume of digital data created and stored by organizations continues to grow. A large percentage of this data is required to be accessible at all times even though the data may not be accessed frequently. Therefore, administrators typically will continue to purchase primary storage to accommodate the massive growth of data. Primary storage continues [...]

Think Vanilla’s Ice’s “Ice, Ice Baby” was tightly put away in your “OMG I can’t believe I listened to that box?” Think Again. Almost two decades later our partners at Vembu have brought it back to life with their rendition called “Cloud, Cloud Maybe” - Vembu’s take on the cloud computing and storage space.
I [...]

Do you drive a Shelby Ultimate Aero to work every day (http://www.shelbysupercars.com/)? For those of you that don’t watch ‘Top Gear’ religiously, it’s the fastest street car in the world.
If you do, when is the last time you hit the top speed of 250 mph on the highway? Never? Let’s me understand [...]

Top 3 Challenges in Cloud Computing:
1. Navigating the vendor hype. Today everyone is selling cloud solutions and everything from a simple API to an archive platform is being called a “cloud platform”. As an organization seeking to embrace cloud computing the challenge is separating the hype from reality.
2. Avoid vendor lock-in. Many cloud solutions [...]