Getting Off The Storage Refresh Treadmill With StorPool
Gestalt IT, Thursday, June 15,2023
Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with enterprise storage vendor StorPool at Storage Field Day 25. Their approach is a refreshing departure from that of traditional storage vendors, and what StorPool likes to call 'the storage game.'
Modern IT systems combine compute, networking, and storage into a complex cornucopia, addressing myriad application needs. The storage side of that conglomeration is often the trickiest bit.
Relational databases typically require huge amounts of block storage. NoSQL databases use both file and object storage for JSON documents. All of this data needs to be protected through redundant copies within the storage environment, not to mention clone them rapidly and consistently for testing, and backup and recovery of crucial systems.