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Storage software increases options for developers


By Alex Handy


 Alex Handy
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August 14, 2012 —  (Page 2 of 2)

Ceph, too, is able to act as an underlying storage system for Hadoop. Indeed, the flexibility of these new storage systems is such that developers can now deploy them to just about any location. When compared to a world where storage is tied to specific boxes in specific data centers, it's no wonder there is so much activity in the software-based storage world.

That's an enticing proposition that even the hardware storage vendors are hoping to capitalize upon. To that end, the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standards will play a big part in NetApp's plans, which the company said include both a software-based management solution, and the ability to combine cloud-hosted storage systems with on-premise hardware.

On Aug. 9, NetApp became the first CDMI participant to support the standard with the release of Storage Grid Version 9. NetApp believes CDMI will be the new standard for storage interfaces across the Web, thanks to its basis in REST. Jon Robbins, solutions marketing manager at NetApp, said, “With CDMI, there really isn't anything that's competing with it at this level and that has the backing that it has. All the major players that designed storage are in this. This is the one that we see that they're truly backing. I think that does give it significant legs. We're the first to announce it. We've had an open HTTP-based RESTful API, and it happened that CDMI is an HTTP-based RESTful interface, so it was easy for us to map the CDMI to our existing product.”

Of course, those other software-based storage solutions can also support CDMI, and thus allow IT and development teams to mix and match their storage choices across the Web and around the world. To that end, NetApp is hoping that its Storage Grid software will provide a compelling way to manage all of that data.

And this all comes back to what are, perhaps, the biggest buzzwords in technology right now: Big Data.

Richard Treadway, director of Big Data solutions marketing at NetApp, said, “If you look at the area of Big Data, it's really no different for us. Big Data represents a disruption to the space, and it requires you to think about how you'll deal with that data and the growth of unstructured data. While this area is pretty confusing, we're trying to simplify it with a practical approach of things you can do today in terms of getting control of the data growth and seeing a real way to use that data to have better business outcomes. There's also bottom-line savings because if you can deal with all that data and store it and use it more efficiently, that goes directly to your bottom line.”


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