FD Insights Issue 7 | Page 34

EMC ScaleIO Delivering elastic and scalable performance and capacity on demand E MC ScaleIO™ is software that creates a server-based SAN from local application server storage to deliver elastic and scalable performance and capacity on demand. ScaleIO converges storage and compute resources, scaling to thousands of nodes. As an alternative to a traditional SAN infrastructure, ScaleIO combines HDDs, SSDs, and PCIe flash cards to create a virtual pool of block storage with varying performance tiers. As storage and compute resources change, ScaleIO software automatically rebalances t