IBRIX Fusion

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IBRIX Fusion is a parallel file system combined with a logical volume manager, availability features and a management interface. The software was produced, sold, and supported by IBRIX Incorporated of Billerica, Massachusetts. HP announced on July 17, 2009 that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire IBRIX. [1] Subsequent to the acquisition, the software components of IBRIX have been combined with ProLiant servers to form the X9000 series of storage systems. [2]

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The X9000 storage systems are designed to provide network-attached storage over both standard protocols (SMB, NFS, HTTP and NDMP [2] ) as well as a proprietary protocol. Architecturally, the file system is limited to 16 petabytes under a single namespace, [3] and is based upon a design described in U.S. Patent 6,782,389 .

It is used in the HPE StoreOnce (former D2D) products.[ citation needed ]

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  1. HP Acquires IBRIX to Extend Scale-out Storage Capabilities to Global Customers
  2. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-06-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-06-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)