A few years ago, we demonstrated some truly awesome capability in single racks and on single machines. We had one of our units (now at a customer site), specifically the unit that set all those STAC M3 records, showing this: and a rack of our units (now providing high performance cloud service at a customer site) for 8k random reads across 0.25 PB of storage on a very fast 40GbE backbone.

As a reminder, the day job has 1PB dense and fast (20GB/s and above)storage systems available for about $0.25/GB fully supported, delivered, and installed. All you need to provide is power and a network connection. I should note that we’ve delivered all flash versions of these as well as hybrid versions for various use cases. We will have an update on these leveraging our greater density options, including 2.3PB/rack fully supported for 3 years, with shipping and installation for under $600k USD, as well as a 1PB flash version in 1-2 racks.

One of our systems at a customer site. $ uptime 15:47:33 up 407 days, 3:23, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.10, 0.06 $ uname -r 3.10.36.scalable

Doesn’t have to be a code golf mechanism, but this looks like fun!

We’ve been doing the startup thing for a hair under 13 years now. Most of the time we’ve been self funded, and recently we took a small investment in a friends and family round (angel.co link here). What occurs to me, after we soft announced our 100GbE results via a Mellanox PR today, is that we’ve been building the types of high performance platforms that enable end users to do bigger and better things for the whole time.

They are turning their SDN concept into one of the most incredible technologies around, a tremendous competitive advantage for them over others in their space. I had been under the impression that they were running everything on their (quite awesome) 10/40GbE switches. These are SDN capable switches from a very well funded SDN switch startup. Turns out, their SDN stack is actually running on siRouter. They are doing some very cool bits on the software stack side, and getting about 2 microseconds port to port.

See the PR bit here (http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/new-mellanox-performance-benchmarks-released/ for the link impaired) This is a Unison Ceph appliance ( http://scalableinformatics.com/unison ) and they are available and shipping now. Please reach out to us if you’d like to discuss. And yes, this is the world’s first 100GbE storage appliance, or storage server SAN device if you prefer. Easily one of the fastest systems in market. [Update] Forgot to mention, this is a set of units bought by a customer, and at their site.

Business development/sales role for now. See here (url: https://scalableinformatics.com/bus-dev in case you don’t see the link) for more details. Prefer New York, Chicago, Boston, or nearby. No relocation.

Our SIOS (Linux based OS, usually based upon Debian) has just been updated for jessie (Debian 8). This was necessary to support rkt, docker, etc. in addition to our other bits. Its been cooking in the background for a while, for, as you might have noticed from my posting frequency, I’ve been busy. But we are up, and running. Base distro version here: root@usn-ramboot:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 8.

Looking forward to our booth #243 at the Trading Show in Chicago. We’ll have a FastPath Cadence time series analytics unit with us. Should be fun!