Looks like Elastifile allows users to "mount" cloud buckets to their servers as NFS. This allows them to run old desktop workflows without the need to migrate these workflows to the cloud.<p>The upside is that Google Cloud is getting serious about the enterprise because most of them still use desktop applications.<p>The question is how long this will last since the future is the cloud.
It will be interesting to see how well this scales. I have seen AWS EFS fall over under heavy read load (lots of reads for the same TB-scale data). A lot of poor souls using Horovod with no data team use EFS to “distribute” data in data-parallel SGD.
I would be interested to see how it compares with AWS EFS under a variety of load.<p>AWS EFS implements NFS 4.1 which support has support for massive parallel IO.<p><a href="http://www.pnfs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pnfs.com/</a>