MaxiScale rolls out infinitely scalable storage clustering software

MaxiScale launched its FLEX Software Platform, which lets IT deploy industry standard servers, clustered with MaxiScale’s software and 1G and 10Gbit Ethernet. The platform allows scaling of file servers and network-attached storage devices into a cluster that sits in front of Internet-facing applications. The software can run on any x86-based server platform that is equipped with Serial ATA disks. Individual nodes are connected to each other with 1G or 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Storage can be allocated in 1KB blocks and nodes can scale to 50,000. Pricing for the MaxiScale software is by the number of nodes. A four-node configuration with 32TB of capacity starts at 6,000.