#FormationData Systems says there is stranded storage capacity in virtual server environments., The firm says it can locate this in servers and storage across a data centre, pool it, and provision it as a flexible shared storage pool, giving extra storage capacity with no extra hardware purchase.
How much? Oh, terabytes or even petabytes.
Really? Yes, really – so it says.
It provides the FormationOne Dynamic Storage Platform which is a software-defined storage product. The product has quality of service, dynamic tiering (flash and disk), data duplication, journalling, and continuous data protection.
FormationOne features a distributed architecture and it runs on industry standard x86 compute nodes and consolidates workloads across block, file and object data types. The product is claimed to be hyper-scale and fault-tolerant.
It provides workload consolidation across block, file, object and big data use cases, and includes TimeLine journaled data protection, with real-time recovery and integrated snaps and clones. FireBreak analytics, deliver real time anomaly detection and reporting
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/20/formation_data_systems_unused_storage_petabytes/
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