File management startup Infinit International Inc. has just outed its latest product. Dubbed by the company as “The Docker of Storage”, the software is able to unify storage resources like clouds, servers and NAS into a single, centralized file system that reduces the latency associated with accessing data from multiple remote locations.

Infinit’s software can be compared to Docker because it allows DevOps to aggregate storage resources via command line into a flexible and controlled, peer-to-peer file system, somewhat similar to the way containers allow applications to be deployed programmatically, explained Baptiste Fradin, COO at Infinit, in an interview.

Infinit is essentially a decentralized file system, with simple to use command line tools, Fradin told me. It allows developers to write scripts governing how peer-to-peer storage network nodes behave, and how users can interact with them, in a somewhat similar fashion to Amazon Web Service’s popular command line tools.

Fradin said that many companies are struggling with their older, clunky storage appliances from companies like EMC Corp. and NetApp Inc. at a time when they need to access their data in as close to real-time as it’s possible to do.

“With Infinit, the data is split into small blocks across the servers,” Fradin explained. “When a file is accessed by a user, the file’s blocks are reassembled on the user’s computer by downloading the composing blocks from multiple sources in parallel, hence providing performance gains, meaning that audio and video can be streamed for instance.”

It’s an innovative approach that that helps to avoid bottlenecks and single points of failure, Fradin assured me.

In addition, Infinit also offers its own hub setup, which helps to eliminate the headaches that come with managing and maintaining storage networks and their users, as well as providing additional functions like advanced monitoring. Infinit also comes with a fail-safe mechanism that ensures redundancy of storage blocks across a company’s infrastructure.

“Should a server fail, the system automatically detects the issue and heals itself by reproducing missing replicas and rebalancing blocks between the storage nodes,” Fradin said.

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