Imagine, if you will, a storage startup that has decided to live up to the hype of Software-Defined Storage ( #SDS ). Instead of merely adopting the buzzword for marketing purposes, they decided to play for all the marbles: ingest any type of storage, emit any type of storage, anywhere at any time. At first blush, it sounds too good to be true; but is it really? The startup in question is #ioFABRIC. ioFABRIC is readying version 2.0 of its software for general availability: toying with the idea of appliances, adjusting its licensing and otherwise making the moves required to go from early-stage startup to serious storage vendor. The basic premise of ioFABRIC's #Vicinity is simple. Vicinity data nodes consume whatever storage you assign to them. This storage could be physical disks, flash or RAM on bare-metal nodes upon which Vicinity is installed. It can be virtual disks, SAN or NAS attached to the fabric, or even cloud storage. Given time, ioFABRIC will enable Vicinity to ingest object storage as well.
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