BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management.

StorPool is described as 'Intelligent software-defined storage solution that allows service providers, enterprises and other Cloud builders to run data storage on standard x86 servers, instead of on expensive and inefficient storage arrays (SANs)' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are more than 25 alternatives to StorPool for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Windows, Web-based and VMware vSphere Hypervisor apps. The best StorPool alternative is MinIO, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like StorPool are Ceph, GlusterFS, Seaweed FS and Google Cloud Filestore.
BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management.

LINBIT’s DRBD® software seamlessly replicates data between servers, eliminating “single points of failure” within your IT infrastructure, no matter which applications are running on top.
XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks. The file system replicates objects for fault tolerance and caches metadata and data to improve performance over high-latency links. SSL and X.
Network Storage Appliance featuring the zfs filesystem, which provides block-level checksumming & automated tier management most notably.
Nanocloud is a software vendor who turns any traditional software into a cloud solution in a few minutes, without changing or redeveloping existing source code.
StorMagic SvSAN is a highly available hyperconverged storage solution using only two servers and protects data with encryption features and key management.



PetaSAN is an open source Scale-Out SAN solution offering massive scalability and performance. PetaSAN uses modern cloud based technologies to provide the elasticity and agility to scale up the storage cluster simply by adding more nodes.

Quobyte is a parallel POSIX file system with block and object storage capabilities. It provides outstanding performance, linear scalability, and full fault tolerance.
Simplyblock is a software-defined high-performance data storage technology that could be deployed in your own cloud account.

Vawlt is an all-in-one SaaS solution for data storage in a multicloud journey that simplifies the transition to the cloud, improves data security standards and optimizes usage of storage resources.




vSAN is enterprise-class, storage virtualization software that, when combined with vSphere, allows you to manage compute and storage with a single platform.