Technology -
Heterogeneous Hardware and Systems
Enabled by a Distributed Architecture
Twisted Storage is a completely distributed system which is inherently insensitive to and unaware of the underlying technology of the hardware running each of the nodes. The nodes and their respective components communicate with each other via SOAP messages. The only requirements for the hardware at each node is that it be capable of running the Twisted Storage software, support the intended storage hardware, and have a network connection.
OS Independent
Twisted Storage software runs native under Windows Server 2003 and above and Linux. It also runs within any virtual machine environment including EMC's VMWare, Sun's VirtualBox and RedHat's KVM which themselves run on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and support a large number of guest operating systems including, but not limited to, Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
Network Independent
As a distributed system communicating via SOAP messages Twisted Storage requires only that all the systems be able to communicate with each other. The specific technology is not critical as long as the host OS supports it.