Here’s another innovative application of commodity hardware and innovative software to the high-scale storage problem. MaxiScale focuses on 1) scalable storage, 2) distributed namespace, and 3) commodity hardware. Today’s announcement: http://www.maxiscale.com/news/newsrelease/092109. They sell software designed to run on commodity servers with direct attached storage. They run N-way redundancy with a default of 3-way across storage…

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