{"id":1433,"date":"2013-07-08T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2013-07-08T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T17:03:35","slug":"the-end-of-proprietary-storage-solutions-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/the-end-of-proprietary-storage-solutions-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of proprietary storage solutions is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"35<\/a>When you buy a socket set or additional sockets, whether you have a \u00bc, \u00bd\u00a0 or \u00be drive ratchet you can use your Snap On, Craftsman, or Kobalt sockets and ratchets\u00a0 interchangeably. Some of my friends really like Snap On tools, but no matter which brand you buy it will still work with the other brands’ components. The manufacturers have feature sets that differentiate the tools, but they all work together; it makes it easier for everyone to stick to a standard and to differentiate themselves based on their quality, features, or price. The market segments itself without a proprietary ratchet drive, and a 25 year old ratchet works with a brand new socket to let you tighten the manifold on your Ford car or Caterpillar tractor.<\/p>\n

So how is that like storage? Well, open source storage is by its very nature and DNA going to be well documented, allow interchangeability and be supported for the strategic long term, and this has the proprietary storage vendors shaking in their boots. When storage innovators like Doug Cutting, Hadoop\u2019s creator, says things like this it substantiates that the move to mainstream open source storage is coming down the road.<\/p>\n

By Nick Heath | June 14, 2013<\/a>
\n\u201cThe days of businesses relying on locked-down operating systems and platforms tightly controlled by commercial organizations are numbered, according to Hadoop creator Doug Cutting.<\/span>
\nProprietary software platforms put businesses at the mercy of the platform vendor, often locking them into accepting regular price hikes, Cutting told ZDNet.\u201d<\/span>
\n“I don’t think people are going to want a platform technology to be proprietary ever again. I think we moved past that. Linux might have been the first to make that point and I think we’re emphasizing that here [with Hadoop],” said Cutting, now chief architect at Hadoop software and services company Cloudera.<\/span>
\nCutting believes that what will kill business demand for proprietary platforms is the threat of lock-in, where a customer is dependent on a vendor for products and services such that they cannot switch to another vendor without suffering substantial costs. These costs often stem from a lack of interoperability between a platform or application a business is using and a competing product they want to switch to.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Zerowait\u2019s <\/a>SimplStor platform is designed to be adaptable to the needs of users of big storage archives which today are in the range of 250 TB to 1 Petabyte.\u00a0 SimplStor is a success because the benefits of open source clearly outweigh the risks of a vendor who holds all the keys getting acquired or going out of business.<\/p>\n

“At higher levels there’s less risk of lock-in. You’re not locked into it in the same way, because all your business logic, all the applications are written in terms of the open source platform.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Cutting is right, it may take a few years but only the most extreme storage systems in the future will have proprietary locked in architectures. SimplStor<\/a> is a success because it complements proprietary systems as an archive and due to its flexibility it allows High End Storage systems to manage the top 20% of storage while it quietly grows and manages the 80% of storage that is unstructured and occasionally used.<\/p>\n

By the way, I prefer Snap On tools because I like their warranty, and I just think their tools are of better quality and make repairs and projects easier. Their no-hassle tool replacement is a model for the Zerowait service and support model. An outstanding service and support partner makes life more enjoyable because you can spend time getting things done instead of talking to customer service and IVR systems.<\/p>\n

You already know you are spending too much on proprietary systems and that only 20% – 30% of your data is tier one and may need the features of those systems \u2013 isn\u2019t it time you looked at SimplStor<\/a> for everything else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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