Organizations seeking to modernize IT infrastructure often evaluate StorPool Storage and Ceph as primary software-defined storage (SDS) solutions. While both utilize distributed architectures on industry-standard servers, they serve fundamentally different operational models… READ MORE
All-flash arrays are essentially a traditional SAN with the twist that they have only SSD drives inside. Their advantage is that they are fast, however, they come at very high cost and are not well suited for some use cases. In addition, they are still a single-purpose, specialized piece of hardware, which imposes vendor lock-in. Their economics do not allow customers to closely match capacity needed with capacity bought… READ MORE
Organizations looking to get the most performance from the storage running their business-critical applications often look to software-defined storage (SDS) platforms. Running on standard commodity server hardware, they can be much more cost-effective than legacy purpose-built storage arrays. Both StorPool and VMware vSAN are SDS solutions, but there are significant differences between the two.…READ MORE
The ex-ScaleIO, now Dell/EMC PowerFlex (ex-FlexOS too) is a block-level SDS product that creates a server-based storage area network (SAN). As we often get questions on how it compares to StorPool, we have outlined some differences. On a very high level it looks similar to StorPool. However, the underlying architectures of the solutions are very different, and the total solution offering around features, business model and pricing vary considerably…READ MORE