http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/seagate-introduces-a-new-drive-interface-ethernet/
<quote> Amazon uses the same sort of interface for its Simple Storage Service (S3), as do "big data" systems such as Hadoop and NoSQL databases such as Basho's Riak <http://basho.com/> and MongoDB <http://www.mongodb.org/>. But those other key-value, pair-based systems generally run atop operating systems and rely on servers to manage data. Kinetic eliminates the server entirely, with all of the management being handled by the storage devices. Each Kinetic drive or SSD has its own key-value management logic, and the drives can communicate with each other to handle replication or movement of data. Seagate is publishing the application library developers will use to control these storage systems as open source. </quote> -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
