Chris Evans of Architecting IT comments:
Keeping up the theme of innovation in storage (yes, it exists, you just have to look), earlier this week I had a chat to one of the UK folks at ScaleIO, the startup now acquired by EMC.
ScaleIO are a software company selling a product called Elastic Converged Storage (ECS) that turns ordinary servers into storage arrays. We’ve heard that before of course and there are lots of examples out there of seemingly similar technology; Nexenta, Microsoft (with W2K12), Open-E and so on. However ScaleIO believes they are different for a number of reasons.
Read more at: ScaleIO, EMC’s New Baby