Netapp AltaVault to serve up Object Storage

I’m currently investigating the use of Netapps’ Virtual appliance “AltaVault” Cold Storage, formally Steelstore.

I want it to serve up Softlayer Object Storage as CIFS and NFS volumes to Virtual servers in Softlayer.  This product (If it works as I think it is going to) can carve up Object storage to provide cheap, slowish, elastic shares to servers.  It provides cache to help boost performance, provides encryption, deduplication and compression.

Check it out here NetApp AltaVault I’ll keep you informed of how I go with this investigation.