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Alfresco, ParaScale Team Up for Content as a Service in the Cloud
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By: Chris Preimesberger
2009-06-17
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ParaScale CEO Sajai Krishnan says the combined ParaScale-Alfresco package enables IT shops to store and access data in the cloud without adding management overhead or cost, offers easy configuration and setup, and ensures smooth scale-out of capacity.Cloud storage startup ParaScale and open-source content management provider
Alfresco Software announced June 17 that they have teamed up to produce an
integrated cloud-based enterprise content management package that utilizes both
companies' software on the same hardware.
The two companies are emphasizing the ability of this new architecture to
"scale out" for high-demand workloads, ParaScale said.
"Scale-out" is a relatively recent data center industry buzzword
referring to architectures for systems running thousands of servers that are
required to scale nearly ad infinitum in order to comfortably handle massive
workloads.
ParaScale CEO Sajai Krishnan said the
combined package enables IT shops to store and access content in the cloud
without adding management overhead or cost, offers easy configuration and
setup, and ensures smooth scale-out of capacity.
"This lowers costs both by eliminating a layer of servers to run Alfresco
as well as by allowing the usage of commodity-priced storage," Krishnan
said. "ParaScale's storage nodes are standard Linux servers, and it took
zero effort for Alfresco to bring up their application directly on ParaScale's
storage servers."
Content growthgenerally estimated by IT researchers at about 60 percent per
year for all enterprisesoften requires an ECM function that can scale users
and content volumes easily and at low cost without a large up-front capital
expenditure. Alfresco's content-as-a-service platform works using a monthly
subscription.
"Alfresco's platform is designed to take full advantage of a cloud service
architecture, and the ParaScale platform enables any node in the cloud to serve
requests for data," said Alfresco CEO
John Powell.
The integrated ParaScale-Alfresco cloud-based ECM solution is available
immediately. Customers can download a free 4TB cloud from the ParaScale Website
and integrate the free 30-day Alfresco Enterprise trial software with the
cloud.
For more information, go here.
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