This week, Chris talks to Jerome McFarland, VP of Marketing with Elastifile, Inc. Elastifile has developed a scale-out distributed file system called ECFS – the Elastifile Cloud File System. ECFS runs either on-premises, in the public cloud as a marketplace offering or, most recently as a full native storage service in GCP. In addition to the base file system, Elastifile provides the capability to move any on-premises NAS data into the public cloud with CloudConnect. ClearTier provides the facility to use the public cloud for tiering of cool or inactive data. Jerome explains the reasons …
