Building a Cloud Capable File System for Web-Based Enterprise Applications

Architecting scalable storage infrastructures to support Web-based enterprise applications requires knowledgeable and thoughtful planning. This session uses real-world examples to explore best practices in building and architecting systems that support both internal facing cloud applications, such as helpdesk and HR portals, and external applications like ecommerce, and supply chain integration.

"Removing Metadata Bottlenecks" video hosted by Gary Orenstein: http://www.maxiscale.com/smallstuff3/.

Mr. Orenstein has served in leadership marketing roles at numerous networking and storage companies. Prior to MaxiScale, he was the vice president of marketing and business development at Gear6, a caching and file acceleration pioneer. He also served as vice president of marketing at Compellent, and was a co-founder at Nishan Systems, acquired by McDATA/Brocade. Mr. Orenstein is the author of IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Dartmouth College.

MaxiScale's cloud-scale file serving and storage platform is a breakthrough for Internet data centers and storage infrastructure that fundamentally changes the economics of deploying Web-scale applications. The FLEX Software Platform addresses the unpredictable and expanding data requirements facing companies that deliver Internet applications via public and private clouds. It enables customers to reduce capital and operational costs while improving performance by an order of magnitude over competing solutions. MaxiScale's innovative Peer Set architecture and single disk I/O small file operations allow data centers to linearly scale a single namespace to hundreds of petabytes, eliminate forklift upgrades and reduce disk spindle counts by a factor of 10. This results in the ability to scale to 100 times the capacity of current solutions.