Software Defined Storage Lizardfs

lizardfs is open source, scale out, distributed, parallel file system. reduce your storage cost by 30% - 70% with open source distributed file system lizardfs. elastic search animation render farm storage special effects (sfx) visual effects (vfx) postproduction reconstruction genomics life sciences archive native clients for linux, macosx, freebsd and windows. nfs support (pnfs). hadoop plugin. plug and scale vertical and horizontal scaling by simply adding or removing a single drive or node easy to install and maintain get your cluster up and running within 2 hours (current record 28 minutes) geo replication allows you to create geo stretched clusters stretching virtually any distance all data is distributed among multiple chunk servers. performance depends on how you build your chunk servers so if you want extra high performance, you just improve your chunk servers or use a small group of chunk servers as your high performance tier. lizardfs is 100% hardware agnostic. you can run it