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Pooling is an approach to storage virtualization that delineates specific areas of the data storage system to be dedicated to specific data flows, in order to enable more efficient multitenant service deployments.
Just as hard drives need to be defragmented once in a while to keep file components closer together, multitenant cloud storage solutions benefit from technology that keeps individual data streams in specific locations. eWeek reports on a new offering:
Sepaton on June 28 introduced a feature it calls "storage pooling" in a new version of its data storage and protection appliance aimed at cloud computing service providers.
Pooling is an approach to storage virtualization that delineates specific areas of the storage system to be dedicated to specific data flows, in order to enable more efficient multitenant service deployments.
Virtualized storage systems break files into chunks of data that are dispersed into numerous data center or storage locations, and reassemble them on demand. Keeping data file chunks closer together in pools theoretically provides faster reassembly of file chunks.
"Storage pooling can be set up as to disk type, where capacity can be in either 1TB or 2TB drives in separate pools, " Sepaton Marketing Director Jay Kramer told eWEEK. "Customers might want to implement a pool based on WORM [write once, read many] storage technology, or for encrypted data, for example."
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