File system for the cloud: Maginatics announced the release of MagFS 2.3.

Maginatics brings great features and deep improvements to its product. Intended for private cloud offering focused on enterprise customers, Connectikpeople has observed that, this latest version of MagFS (Maginatics File System), aims to enable enterprises to transition from traditional, monolithic storage systems to
cost-effective, scalable and agile software-defined storage architectures at their own pace.

As major features, Connectikpeople has nabbed:

• Scale-Out Namespaces: Users can now combine multiple MagFS shares into a single namespace, providing seamless scale-out shared capacity with location transparency.
• Disaster Recovery: Administrators can mount metadata backups, securely stored in the cloud, directly to a new namespace for fast disaster recovery. Rapid restoration of required portions of any namespace is now a reality.
• Enhanced High Availability: MagFS now supports Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) as a metadata storage endpoint, allowing for fault-tolerance across Availability Zones as well as full integration with RDS snapshots and recovery.
• Support for Google Compute Engine: To increase the options for rapidly deploying the virtual server component of MagFS, Maginatics has expanded its support for virtualization technologies to include Google Compute Engine (GCE).
• Enhanced Linux Support: MagFS now supports a wider range of Linux clients (CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu and Raspbian) for data center and in-cloud deployments where Linux workloads are a must. MagFS can be deployed on Linux in seconds via distro packages and now matches other platforms with support for multiple users per machine. Highlighting the small footprint of the MagFS Agent, MagFS introduces support for Raspberry Pi from this release.
• Supercharged Performance and Scalability: MagFS 2.3 introduces numerous new features to benefit both of these key attributes. These features include streamlined metadata operations, increased WAN optimization, workload-dependent chunk size optimizations and improved client performance.

Connectikpeople has also observed that Maginatics henceforth aims to offer to its customers a greater choice of back-end object (cloud) storage solutions with the addition of support for Basho Riak CS and Cloudian object-storage systems.

Maginatics MagFS version 2.3 will be generally available beginning in September, 2013. Current MagFS term- and perpetual-license customers will be able to upgrade to MagFS 2.3 at no additional charge.

About Maginatics

Founded in 2010, Maginatics is a leader in distributed enterprise storage solutions. The company’s flagship platform, MagFS, offers NAS-like functionality in place of traditional NAS or where NAS is unavailable or simply not an option: in the cloud to support scale-out workloads or disaster recovery solutions, and on–premises to support distributed enterprises and mobile environments.