Storage startup Hedvig emerges from stealth to launch the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform, a means to "fundamentally change the economics of enterprise data storage and management."
As the company puts it, current storage technologies cannot handle the ever-increasing amount of data businesses generate. The Hedvig platform claims to fix the situation by collapsing several storage stack layers into a single software platform, allowing enterprises to choose how to provision their storage without need to regularly re-architect storage architecture.
The platform scales from "several" terabytes to petabytes, and spans on-premise, private and public clouds via elastic, hybrid cluster. In addition, a simple UI allows admins to handle tasks such as policy and provisioning processing with "AWS-like simplicity."
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