Oooh...
Maybe if I win the lottery BIG! Move over BEA.
EMC purchase of Graphite Systems was a wetware buy
EMC’s purchase of Graphite Systems was a wetware acquisition, a simple acquihire, according to sources close to the matter. EMC didn’t want the hardware or the software: it wanted the wetware – the people – because what they were developing was so similar to DSSD’s own technology of an ultra-fast, solid state storage array …
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Thursday 1st October 2015 20:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
check the math
A 5x payout on 1.5M is not a 7.5M acquisition. It's 7.5M divided by the fraction of the company that the investors in that 1.5M round got. Suppose they got a bit under 20%, so then it's about $40M assuming the 5x payout (which seems like a very rough estimate). In any case most of the valuation is captured in partially vested founder/early employee stock.
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Saturday 3rd October 2015 10:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
HARDWARE IS BACK BABY! And its roaring fast
For the time being... until Intel comes up with commoditized NVMe with along with enterprise offerings from samsungintelmicronsandisktoshib.
Question is how does this connect to the servers?
How do PCIe switches work compared to others? Does it just work or does it need configuration? Who makes them? There were some thoughts back in the late 2000s about creating a network based on PCIe with NICs/HBAs/etc cards to insert at the end points (switched PCIe on the front end), but no one created anything external.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
