The Rise Of Open Source Storage Software
Commodity based open source storage software à la Red Hat GFS is it seems the next big wave. One of the reason is web companies use a lot of storage and cannot afford expensive NetApp or EMC hardware. They are also too small to create their own Distributed/clustered filesystems.
Solutions: open source with support as MySQL did it.
This is a quick win, since it is not particularly hard compared to the guaranteed lucrative market position, a company would gain. I guess VC are not interested in this market, as they were not in MySQL at their start.
In the meantime, Amazon S3 is gaining a lot of advance since its competitor are non existant yet.
