Distributed Storage Infrastructure The Big Picture Distributed Storage

Distributed Storage Infrastructure: The Big Picture

Distributed Storage and the Data. Grid. • Distributed storage is poised for significant growth in imminent future. • This is reflected, for example, in Net. App’s recent $300 M acquisition of Spinnaker reflects its commitment to distributed storage. • Related efforts from HP and Sun have focused on storage management. • Oracle is committed to the Data. Grid.

Distributed Storage and the Data. Grid - Exa. Grid

Distributed Storage: Plethora • The design goals of Plethora are shared (in parts) by other distributed storage systems. • Plethora provides fundamentally better technologies for routing and querying, robustness, latency-tolerant consistency mechanisms, end-user performance, and overall resource utilization.

Plethora and IBM • We believe that a partnership with IBM is ideal for the following reasons: – Development efforts must be guided by real applications and underlying networking and storage environments. IBM can provide such environments. – Supporting development efforts towards production quality software, interoperability, and systems integration. – Versioning schemes, data reuse mechanisms, and application interfaces. – Detailed performance and scalability on real testbeds. – IBM has considerable investments in the grid.