The traditional storage business models of NAS and SAN have been worthwhile for many enterprises, but the question remains: Is NAS or SAN best for cloud computing environments? Scality, a storage vendor, asserts that, in many cases, the answer is no. Scality’s RING “organic storage software” is, according to the company, the first object-based storage platform to provide the levels of performance necessary for robust Web-based applications.
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