Scale-Out Storage Solutions
Scale-Out Storage Solutions Overview
What are Scale-Out Storage Solutions?
Scale-out storage is expandable network-attached storage (NAS) architecture not confined to a single form factor, but extensible and configurable as needed, intended to scale with business storage and performance needs.Scale-Out Storage Products
Exablox
Exablox is a offered as a high performance scale-out file storage appliance which was acquired by disaster recovery solution company StorageCraft in January 2017 to boost that company's product line.
HP PolyServe
HP PolyServe is file system software, from Hewlett-Packard.
Cray CS-Storm
Cray offers the CS-Storm a supercomputer dedicated to performance intensive applications, a few suggested by the vendor being deep learning, machine learning, signal-processing, reservoir simulation, and other computational-intensive tasks.
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out storage touted by the vendor as vastly more efficient and powerful than legacy storage with a far smaller form factor. FlashBlade also includes AIRI, an AI-based scalable infrastructure management tool.
IBM POWER9 Servers
IBM offers the POWER9 series of servers, available in scale-out or scale-up variants.
IBM POWER8 Servers
IBM offers a wide range of scale-out servers and storage options, including their POWER8 line of scale-out enterprise grade servers, part of the IBM Power Systems family of servers.