A looksee into storage upstart Hedvig's garage

Hedvig decloaked from stealth recently, saying it’s producing converged block, file and object storage for enterprises with Facebook/Amazon-level scale, costs and efficiencies. It does this through its DSP (Distributed Storage Platform) software, and The Reg was at a June 23 press briefing in Santa Clara to hear more. Founder …

[Nate Amsden]

they picked a terrible name

They should of named it something like "Storage Magic v1.0"

because that's what it sounds like they are trying to make.

[Serif]

Nice idea, but what's new about it?

This looks very similar to Ceph and Parallels Cloud Storage. I guess I'm going to have to read the white paper to see what makes it count as patentable.

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Re: Nice idea, but what's new about it?

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