Content-addressable storage turns out to be the perfect solution, because it's designed to accommodate fixed content data. The idea is straightforward: Each object going into the system is given a ...

Back in 2001 when EMC bought Belgian startup FilePool, only a few people knew what CAS (content addressable storage) was. Even fewer people knew that FilePool's Paul Carpentier was the mind behind CAS ...

The new Centeras give EMC a new weapon against a variety of vendors, all gunning for the same market. Content-addressable storage creates a unique address from data as a way of letting multiple ...

Start-up Caringo this week is enhancing its content-addressable storage system by adding local- and wide-area replication. Caringo’s CAStor 2.0 software runs on commodity x86 servers that have a pair ...

That start-up, Austin, Texas-based Caringo, is planning to unveil its first product, CAStor, which allows solution providers and ISVs to turn any industry-standard server into a content-addressable ...