Why all the interest in Scale-out/Cluster File Systems (SO/CFS) and why now? Why now is probably easiest to answer, valuations are down. NetApp is migrating GX to their main platform, IBM continues to breath life in GPFS, HP buys IBRIX, and now LSI buys ONStor. It seems every day brings some new activity with scale [...]

What does HAM look like to the open systems end user. We need to break this question up into two parts – one part for USP-V internal storage and the other part for external storage. It appears that for internal storage first you need data replication services such as asynch or synchronous replication between the [...]