Storage Field Day 3: Exablox

April 29, 2013 John Obeto

Last week, I was at Gestalt IT’s Storage Field Day 3 in Westminster, Colorado.

Over the course of three days, we saw several companies who showed us where they thought storage was heading towards, and their forthcoming products. We also had the opportunity to be involved in off-camera discussions about future roadmaps. To crown it all, a startup, Exablox, came out of stealth, and launched at Storage Field Day 3!

A recurring theme at SFD3 was Flash, as in flash storage, as it seems solid state drives, or SSDs, are commonly called in this space. Just about every product talked about there had to do with flash, the use of as an accelerator for data access. In the SFD3 Roundtable, this use of flash is discussed among the delegates.

Finally, in my SFD3 summary, my thoughts, both on the state of storage, and of the event.

Exablox

Exablox is storage startup that until Storage Field Day 3, was in stealth mode.

Exablox, the company, publicly launched on Wednesday, April 24, and also launched their two current products on that day. The products are:

OneSystem: cloud management for Exablox products
OneBlox: scale-out, object-based storage appliance.

Common to both OneSystem & OneBlox are ease of setup, configuration, and management.

OneBlox is designed to be installed, and then set up using OneSystem once. Then the admin now can do whatever is needed for provisioning.

The video below introduces you to Exablox.

This video is © Stephen Foskett & Gestalt IT

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Exablox is an intriguing, and inexpensive scale-out appliance and service combo.

What I like about it is the fact that from the onset, manageability was thought of, and built into the product. Security is also built in, and it can theoretically use off-the-shelf hard drives.

I am actually looking forward to having the time to put a OneBlox appliance and the OneSystem management service through our testing regimen.

More Exablox videos, including a detailed deep dive, and a demo of both products, can be found here.

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