Though scale-out storage options have been on the market for a while, existing products generally fail to meet mainstream storage needs. Typically NAS-only and narrowly focused on specific applications, limited to a particular model of storage controller and offering meager support, these products can't provide the storage efficiency and data protection capabilities most storage admins need.

This paper introduces an emerging unified scale-out solution purpose-built to provide an adaptable, always-on storage infrastructure for virtualized environments. Read on to learn what this approach to scale-out could mean for your company and its data.