Nemertes Impact Analysis:

Privately held Parascale now supports synchronous replication for its clustered network attached storage systems (NAS). The new features facilitate synchronized backup of virtual machine (VM) images in real-time for disaster recovery (DR). Unlike NAS appliances, Parascale’s software-only solution facilitates lower cost replication for Tier II file storage by using repurposed servers and commodity disks.

Improving DR is a key value proposition of virtualization and storage replication is at its heart. With virtualization organizations are achieving a five-fold decrease in time to move to a DR site.

Impacts::

Enterprises: Repurposing existing servers to build a storage cloud for DR will be very attractive to the CFO. You’ll need in-house integration talent.

Vendors: Focus on improving the economics of your storage replication solutions.

Investors: Parascale helps cloud providers such as privately held BitPusher, Carpathia Hosting, and VISI keep their costs down.

Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst

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