back to article VCs palm Igneous $15m to give its Arm-powered backup boxen a leg up

Some $15m has just been shoveled into Igneous Systems by venture capitalists to further develop the upstart's Arm-powered petabyte-scale unstructured data backup, archive and storage box that has a public cloud backend. The on-premises gear is a collection of nano-servers – disk drives with Arm CPUs strapped to them. The …

  1. l8gravely

    So how big a WAN link do you need to backup 10tb nightly?

    So... how do you backup 10tb of data nightly to the cloud? All of these guys who think that backups can move to the cloud don't seem to include network costs into their calculations...

    1. jhughes

      Re: So how big a WAN link do you need to backup 10tb nightly?

      Takes about 3 hrs with a standard 10G link. Network cost is part of how our customers think about the solution, but it's not for everyone.

  2. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
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    For a moment ...

    I had associations with Igneous who runs the pottery business in Quarry Lane; a solid business, but not worth 15M Ankh-Morpork dollars

    Deary me, is it that time again? The one with "Thud!" in the pocket please

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