Maginatics Announces MagFS Version 2.3

Maginatics
Inc. released MagFS
2.3 (Maginatics File System).

The software enable enterprises to
transition from traditional, monolithic storage systems to scalable
software-defined storage architectures at their own pace, with no
disruption to their existing workflows, applications or IT
operations.

Maginatics will demonstrate MagFS 2.3 at VMworld 2013 at
the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA from August 25 – 29.

Features:

• Performance and Scalability:
  This release introduces features to benefit both of these attributes.
  It includes streamlined metadata operations, increased WAN
  optimization, workload-dependent chunk size optimizations and
  improved client performance.

• Scale-Out Namespaces: Users can
  combine multiple shares into a single namespace, providing scale-out
  shared capacity with location transparency.

• DR: Administrators can mount
  metabackups stored in the cloud, directly to a namespace for fast DR.

• Enhanced HA: It supports Amazon
  Relational Database Service as a metastorage endpoint, allowing for
  fault-tolerance across availability zones as well as integration with
  RDS snapshots and recovery.

• Support for Google Compute Engine:
  To increase the options for depoying the virtual server component, it
  expanded its support for virtualization technologies to include
  Google Compute Engine.

• Enhanced Linux Support: Brings
  support for a range of Linux clients (CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu and
  Raspbian) for data center and in-cloud deployments where Linux
  workloads are a must. It can be deployed on Linux via distro packages
  and matches other platforms with support for multiple users per
  machine. Highlighting the small footprint of the MagFS Agent, the
  company introduces support for Raspberry Pi from this release.

• Improved Features: It includes
  bug fixes along with a host of features that improve restore times,
  enhance usability, increase robustness and simplify administration.

The company offers customers a greater
choice of back-end object (cloud) storage solutions with the addition
of support for Basho Riak CS and Cloudian object-storage systems.

"MagFS, together with object
storage, is positioned to transform enterprise storage for years to
come in much the same way that NAS did decades ago," said
Amarjit Gill, co-founder and CEO, Maginatics.

In particular:

• Boosts Productivity for
  Geographically Distributed Enterprises:
  Traditional NAS enabled teams within an office to collaborate with
  one another by concurrently accessing a shared capacity pool. This
  solution extends this capability to geographically distributed
  office, permitting distributed and mobile teams to collaborate on
  files at enterprise scale.

• Elastic File System for Cloud:
  The cloud provides immediate access to compute and storage capacity.
  Moving workloads to the cloud requires customers to rewrite their
  applications for the cloud or to build clones of ‘old school
  systems’ in the cloud, sacrificing scale, elasticity, performance or
  all three. The software allows unmodified applications to run in the
  cloud without compromises.

"After researching all of the
alternatives, OGL chose MagFS as the value-add front-end for our
private cloud offering focused on enterprise customers,"
said Paul Colwell, head of R&D, OGL
Computer imited, provider of IT solutions "With its
smooth installation, fast data access and robust mobile clients,
MagFS is the best product we have ever tested. We’re pleased to see
that Maginatics is maintaining an aggressive roadmap and rapid pace
of innovation as witnessed by this latest release."

The version 2.3 will be available
beginning in September, 2013. Current term- and
perpetual-license customers will be able to upgrade at no additional
charge. Pricing is based on license term and actual capacity
used; there are no per-seat or per-user fees.