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Versity Software, the leading independent software-defined mass storage company focused on building scalable, modular, and efficientexabyte-scale data storage solutions, today announced the addition of Meghan McClelland as Vice President of Product.

Versity is an archiving software startup using multi-threaded SAM-QFS.It was founded in March 2011 by CEO Bruce Gilpin, with a VC background, and CTO Harriet Coverston. She is the tech brains of the outfit and worked at LSC (Large Storage Configurations) from 1986, which developed QFS (Quick File System).

Versity Software, the leading independent software-defined mass storage company focused on building scalable, modular, and efficient exabyte-scale data storage solutions, announced today that it has open sourced its Scale Out File System (ScoutFS).

I was a big fan of QFS and SAM-QFS and was surprised that the LSC acquisition by SUN in 2001 finally did not deliver the promises. The fact that the team, especially Harriet Coverston, who developed LSC’s product started a new story – Versity Software – was a good indicator …

Supercomputer supplier Cray is offering archival storage for cold data with automated movement across four storage tiers.The product is a large-scale tiered storage archive solution intended for the HPC and Big Data markets.