Woz’s Chief Scientist job goes poof after Primary Data burns through $100 million

“Primary Data, an enterprise storage startup which employed Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, appears to have shut down,” Luke Dormehl reports for Cult of Mac. “At time of writing, the company’s Twitter and Facebook appear to be down, although its webpage is still working. Its operating status is described as ‘closed.'”

“Primary Data secured $50 million of funding in 2013, before…

タンブラーは「リンク」で投稿すると勝手に添付画像を圧縮するので、表などが見づらくなる。見やすいように「画像」で再投稿する。

ボニータ（Bonnie++（1.97））の結果。オプションなし。iMacの内蔵SSDはFusion-IO並の性能が出ている。

記事中のサーバに問題があるのか、iMacが凄すぎるのか。本当にFusion-IO並の性能ならばiMacはこの上ない投資価値だ。日常業務のデスクトップパソコンのバックグランドでサーバー動いてます的な。それも大規模サイトの。

最新のiMacは×4のリンク幅で接続されているため、私の×2よりもっと高速。※iMacのFusion Driveは現在検証中のFusion-ioとは違って、HDDとの組み合わせなので、全てSSDを選んだ方がいい。

Steve Wozniak joins Primary Data as Chief Scientist

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]Data virtualization company Primary Data today revealed that Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak has joined the company as Chief Scientist. Woz made the announcement with CEO Lance Smith on stage at DEMO Fall 2014 as Primary Data emerged from stealth mode. As Chief Scientist, Wozniak will counsel Primary Data on technology vision and architecture, and he will also share the…

Analyst Opinion from @georgeacrump Does the @SanDisk and @Fusionio acquisition create a "New Kind of Company"

The news this week that SanDisk is buying Fusion-io for over $1 Billion dollars is something to pay attention to. If the acquisition goes through, SanDisk becomes a formidable competitor to a wide variety of companies in the storage and memory industry and may change the game altogether. These changes are important not only for storage vendors, but will also change how and who enterprises acquire…

Preview of today's webinar: Avoid the Waste of a VDI-Only Storage Solution – Podcast @fusionio @georgeacrump

Storage Switzerland will host a Webinar with Fusion-io on Tuesday, April 15 (today) at noon Central on VDI in the Data Center. George Crump and I preview this podcast that starts at noon central time.

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Video - Does VDI Need Dedicated Storage? @georgeacrump @fusionio

It’s an accepted fact that a VDI environment can create some challenges for the IT infrastructure. Mashing hundreds of desktop workloads onto a disk array that was designed for more general-purpose applications can lead to poor or inconsistent performance. This can lead to another challenge, meeting user expectations.

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Latest Article by @georgeacrump "Overcoming The Risk of Mixing Storage Workloads"

Silos of storage within the storage environment are increasing at an alarming rate with each being dedicated to a specific task or workload. Why? The answer is simple: risk mitigation. The data center can’t afford to have applications experience unpredicted drops in and inconsistent performance. The simplest way to assure this predictability is to dedicate a storage system to each type of…