ParaScale Runs Apps on Cloud Storage Nodes

Cloud storage software provider ParaScale supports applications running directly on storage nodes. As mentioned in this report on The Register, the idea is that a scale-out cloud file storage architecture is great for storing data, but not good if the applications that need the data are remote, which they will be.

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"ParaScale’s Cloud Storage (PCS) software aggregates multiple standard Linux servers to present one highly scalable virtual file-storage appliance, accessible via standard file access protocols like CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP and WebDAV.

"V2.5 of ParaScale software adds improved data security and better self-healing but the main event is the return as it were, of direct-attached storage (DAS) to the cloud."

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