Check out this new article on VMBlog.com by our CEO Kevin Brown titled “Why you can't Build a Cloud with Fibre Channel”. In the article Kevin writes about how cloud economics require a new storage paradigm. “Take a look at cloud computing giants like Google and Amazon in the era of Big Data and you won’t find cloud stacks built on legacy storage technology”, writes Kevin. These cloud service providers realized Fibre Channel was too expensive and instead built massive data centers using commodity hardware and virtualization software.
Cloud storage architectures, whether public or private, represent a huge design shift from traditional enterprise storage. To minimize cost, cloud environments need to scale out leveraging lower cost building blocks instead of scaling up behind expensive storage hardware. We see many enterprises turn to Coraid EtherDrive to help them replicate the benefits and economics of this consumer “cloud storage” model in their own data centers.
Why? Because of its disruptive economics at 1/5th the cost of Fibre Channel, its high performance at 1,800 MB/s and its extreme flexibility scaling up to 65,536 shelves per network. Also, Ethernet SAN eliminates multiple layers of complex legacy SAN topology, including multi-pathing software, port bonding, and switch configuration.
If you are looking to build a private or a public cloud try Ethernet SAN; it makes cloud storage affordable, scalable and easy to use.
Impressive blog! -Arron
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