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    Overview

    Software Defined Storage LizardFS is a distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available file system. It allows users to combine disk space located on many servers into a single name space which is visible on Unix-like and Windows systems in the same way as other file systems. SDS LizardFS makes files secure by keeping all the data in many replicas spread over available servers. It can also be used to build space-efficient storage, because it is designed to run on commodity hardware. Disk and server failures are handled transparently without any downtime or loss of data. If storage requirements grow, it's possible to scale an existing SDS LizardFS installation just by adding new servers _ at any time, without any downtime. The system will automatically move some data to newly added servers, because it continuously takes care of balancing disk usage across all connected nodes. Removing servers is just as easy as adding a new one.

    Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.

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    Orange Polska, Platige Image, United State Department of Agriculture, Virtu Financial
    Acuutech, Quest Technology Management, Bradley, Mead & Hunt
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    Comms Service Provider25%
    University11%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
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    Large Enterprise54%
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    LizardFS is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews. LizardFS is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of LizardFS writes "There is an automated built-in failover mechanism, but you must build it yourself if you have no support contract in place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". LizardFS is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage, whereas Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and DataCore SANsymphony.

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