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 [...]

DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced this week a new product offering private cloud services. Apparently the new Web Object Scaler (WOS) is a storage appliance that can be clustered together across multiple sites and offers a single global file name space across all the sites. Also the WOS cloud supports policy file replication and distribution across [...]