From Term Sheet (required reading BTW) Read it all. The thing about bubble valuations and unicorns … neither one will last very long. Pure Storage IPOed this week and they aren’t doing as well in the public markets as their private market valuations might suggest. This is not to say they aren’t a good company, or don’t have a good product. This is saying that the demand for “unicorn” valuations from the buy side is … well … weak.

Story is here. Not sure this is a great tie up … EMC has lots of things Dell doesn’t need (and vice versa). Possibly parts of EMC (secession from the federation?) with Dell. I can’t imagine VMware wanting to tie up with one vendor. Nor Pivotal, etc. This said, Cisco pulled out of the venture with EMC to pursue its own directions, competitive with elements. But then they bought and subsequently closed Whiptail.

see for more details. I’d love to find a valid reason to play with it, but my near term foci are going to remain our current code base in Perl/C, nodejs for a few things, Julia/R for analysis. The joke about Perl 6 shipping by Christmas is now over … as the correct response has been “what year”. Until this year it seems.

Cleversafe was acquired by IBM. Looks like 200 people making their way over. This is huge, as now Scality is basically the last independent standing, and I am guessing they won’t be alone for long.

Our friends at Lucera are in number 6 for best use of HPC in a financial services category. Our Unison product is at number 11 for Best HPC Storage Product or Technology. And I did a write in for #21 for us :D. Our friends at Mellanox have their 100Gb EDR Infiniband technology at number 14. Please do vote (early, not often).

We are involved in a fairly large benchmark for a potential customer. I won’t go into many specifics, though I should note that lots of our Unison units are involved. Current architecture has 5 storage nodes (6th was temporarily removed to handle a customer issue). Each Unison node has a pair of 56GbE NICs, as well as our appliance OS, and bunches of other goodness (quite a bit of flash). Total capacity for test is of order 200TB of flash.

Very fast units, very reasonable prices. We are (again) running out of space in our lab, and really need to move this stuff out. Many of these have been demo/engineering machines for us, including the portable petabyte unit. We’ve got a Cadence box with 16TB of storage, which puts up performance numbers that other vendors would kill for … https://twitter.com/sijoe/status/606221680533508096 and https://twitter.com/sijoe/status/606222084587388928 We’ve got the portable petabyte unit available (albeit with less than 1 PB).

So far, 3 components, and working to fix a few things in formatting. On github, grab it here. First, lsbond.pl to report about bond details root@unison-mgr-1:~/net-tools# ./lsbond.pl bond0: mac 0c:c4:7a:48:69:cb state up mode fault-tolerance (active-backup) xmit_hash layer2 0 active slave eth1 polling 100 ms up_delay 200 ms down_delay 200 ms slave nics: eth1: mac 0c:c4:7a:48:69:cb, link 1, state up, speed 1000, driver igb, version 5.3.2.2 firmware version 1.61,0x8000090e bond1: mac 00:12:c0:80:26:76 state up mode fault-tolerance (active-backup) xmit_hash layer2 0 active slave eth3 polling 100 ms up_delay 200 ms down_delay 200 ms slave nics: eth2: mac 00:12:c0:80:26:76, link 1, state up, speed 10000, driver ixgbe, version 4.

The paper is here. We focused on our product mix and the rough comparables in the report. Our units are immediately available as well, preloaded/preconfigured with Ceph. The takeaway is this: [ ](https://scalableinformatics.com/assets/documents/Unison-Ceph-Performance.pdf) Whats really interesting in this is that the 36+2 reference architecture makes use of 2x NVMe drives. And as you can see, they really don’t help much in the tests. This is not to say NVMe is bad; its not.

Please go here and nominate! Last year, our customer Lucera, won best in Financial Services. We built the vast majority of their infrastructure, so we like to think we contributed in some manner to their success. This year, please don’t hesitate to nominate us (or second/third/etc.) for Best HPC Storage Product of Technology for Scalable Informatics Unison product, or whatever you’d like. In addition to the nomination for Unison in storage, I put in nominations for Cadence in Financial Services, and in Data Intensive computing.