IBRIX Fusion

The IBRIX Fusion Software Suite comprises a scalable parallel file system, integrated logical volume manager, availability features, and a management interface.

IBRIX Fusion is a purely software-based, integrated, enterprise-class scalable file storage solution suite comprised of a scalable POSIX compliant parallel file system, logical volume manager, availability features and a management interface that includes a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface (CLI). IBRIX Fusion allows enterprise system administrators to build file systems that can scale to up to 16 petabytes of capacity in a single namespace, and provide up to 1 terabyte/sec of aggregate I/O throughput performance, independently and non-disruptively as the demands of the enterprise grow. IBRIX Fusion is hardware, network, and protocol independent and can be deployed as either a host-installed cluster file system solution or exported over NFS, CIFS, or other industry standard protocols as a scalable NAS solution.

Based on a patented, Segmented File System architecture, IBRIX Fusion enables enterprises to pull together their I/O and storage systems into a single environment that is multipurpose and shareable across a multitude of applications, and to manage that environment through a centralized interface.

What's interesting about Ibrix:

* It's built on commodity hardware, and the license is independent of the hardware it's installed on
* They have a partnership with EMC, and scale up into their platform very well
* They have a partnership with Dell which they use to push to the Enterprise channel
* Ibrix comes from High Performance Computing, but is a breakout company making inroads into many other industries

* It scales horizontally
* Ibrix is well positioned to broker larger enterprise SAN type architecture on emerging technologies like 10 Gbit Ethernet (GigE x 10), an emerging standard replacing fibre

External links

* [http://www.ibrix.com/ Company Website]