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!
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Atrato adds security « Storage Effect // April 17, 2008 at 9:28 am |
[...] been making waves with their innovative approach to performance for content serving applications. Now they’ve [...]
Julie howard // May 22, 2008 at 3:14 pm |
I bought a seagate desktop external drive a month ago and already it has failed me. i have worked with their representative to try to get it to work , but to no avail. Worse is they quoted me 1600.00 dollars for just the recovery process. Wow, more people should be aware of this.
Pete Steege // May 23, 2008 at 7:56 am |
Sorry you had such a difficult experience. It’s a rare occurrence. I’ve forwarded your info on to Seagate Support – although it sounds like your remaining issue is recovery, not replacing the unit.
schwasj // October 8, 2008 at 11:47 am |
Atrato is based in my backyard, and I think they have some very interesting technology.
I’m looking forward to seeing what the v2 product looks like, v1 from most start-ups is always disappointing to me, I want every cool feature and function from day one!