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October 02, 2006 | Comments: (0)

A SMB Grid Product to Watch

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One of the things that draws so much fire from critics, including myself, is that the generic term "Grid" means so many things to so many different people. The positive flip side to this is that the Grid door remains open to products that target a variety of different markets for a variety of different applications.

In the early days of Grid we often touted the ability to create aggregates of existing equipment to accomplish new tasks, the resulting total greater than the sum of the parts. Lately we seem to hear more from those targeting big enterprise computing who are generally more concerned with getting all they can from those new blade servers they purchased. While the price point of new equipment is certainly within reach of small to medium size businesses (SMBs) these folks often simply do not have the manpower to implement a new system and need products that work with their current network and storage hardware.

I recently stumbled upon a company targeting the SMB market, RevStor. RevStor has a product in the pre beta stage called SWARMS. SWARMS is an interesting product that builds a turn key data Grid on a variety of operating systems running on commodity hardware. I've seen it demoed and it quite simply just plain works.

I'm looking forward to keeping tabs on RevStor. Not only because I think they have a nice concise workable product, but I believe that they will be a litmus test for main stream Grid acceptance in the SMB market.

Posted by Greg Nawrocki on October 2, 2006 09:57 AM

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