Storage Effect

Content access time is the performance metric for Web 2.0 enterprise storage

A very cool entrant in the storage space: Atrato.  Think “black box” storage:  hundreds of 2.5″ drives, sealed in a 3-year maintenance-free containter that’s ”fail-in-place”  Does that mean it keeps working for 3 years despite losing a few drives along the way?  Let us know if you know.

Atrato is focused on instant access.  This is the high capacity content-serving equivalent of transactional performance for traditional enterprise applications.  Expect to see more solutions for Web 2.0 infrasctructure that are screaming fast, but in a new way.

Robin Harris has a nice analysis of their new idea and product here. 

By the way, Atrato is a river in Columbia that Atrato (the company) says is the fastest in the world.  Creative name choice!