back to article Where's the bloody flare gun? Cast adrift on a swirling gyre of storage

Bobbing around the Sargasso Sea of storage news this week we see cast-off sandals, bits of plastic, seaweed... oh, what's that?! A lifeboat? No, just some Flash Memory Summit jetsam. Let's dive in and see what we have. Attala Systems Attala Systems and Microsemi Corporation say they are developing the industry's first fully …

  1. Matt Bryant Silver badge
    Meh

    Hmmmm, Envy Me over Ethernet...?

    Solarflare's idea of NVM over TCP looks interesting for distance applications (DR and BURA), but I think the drop in transfer rates over a WAN will be horrific, especially as TCP is not a storage-optimised protocol (which is why we ended up with iSCSI). And then there's the same problems with any storage-over-the-network technology, number one being aptly described by Brocade's Mark Detrick as "The storage guys don’t go to lunch with the network guys. You know what I mean, right? OK, think about it…"

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