Storage pooling

Storage pooling is the underlying technology behind storage virtualization and storage clusters. Pooling software creates a storage pool across disk systems, treating the capacity on the systems as one virtual storage space. Storage pooling simplifies storage management, and can simplify scaling of RAID and other storage by allowing new hardware to join an existing pool.

April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21
Excelero adds option to pool NVMe storage on Azure cloud

A new deployment option for Excelero's NVMesh software-defined storage will target some of the most demanding applications running on Microsoft Azure virtual machines.
April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21
Quobyte CEO says customers need a scale-out mindset

In order to tackle AI, machine learning and other demanding workloads, enterprises need to break out of their appliance-centric approach to storage, according to Quobyte's CEO.
July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20
NVMe over Fabrics startup Lightbits Labs adds clustering

Lightbits Labs' LightOS now enables application servers to access NVMe flash SSDs in a cluster of servers -- not just a single box -- over standard Ethernet via NVMe over TCP.
November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19
New DataCore vFilO software pools NAS, object storage

The new vFilO software provides a scale-out file system and global namespace for unstructured data, facilitating unified access to data through NFS, SMB and S3 protocols.

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