Elastic Storage

Intalio|Elastic Storage provides an elastically scalable and fault-tolerant storage infrastructure for private cloud deployment. It scales up to multiple Petabytes, and is 100% fault-tolerant, while supporting a broader range of Quality of Service requirements.

Scalability

• Truly linear scalability
• Scalability to hundreds of petabytes
• New node addition with two mouse clicks

Performance

• No metadata server
• Automatic load balancing
• File striping across dozens of storage blocks

High Availability

• No central point of failure
• Data mirroring
• Real time self-healing
• Error detection and correction

Easy Deployment & Management

• Self healing (no fsck)
• Automatic error correction
• Wizard based deployments
• Centralized logging and reporting
• No system downtime for upgrades or new nodes

Optimized for Virtual Servers

• Single namespace for VM images and data
• Multiple copies of VM images

Flexible Setup

• Native clients available but not required
• Support for NFS, CIFS, HTTP, WebDAV, and FTP protocols
• Support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand

Source: Gluster.com