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May 5, 2014 · DSSD President and CEO Bill Moore, formerly Sun Microsystems’ Chief Storage Engineer, ZFS co-lead and 3Par’s first employee, will lead the DSSD business within EMC. Andy Bechtolsheim, who is also Chairman and Chief Development Officer of Arista Networks, and formerly a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, will serve as DSSD’s strategic advisor.
May 5, 2014 · EMC has acquired DSSD. At the Convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum. Subscribe
May 5, 2014 · Hardware based on DSSD’s architecture should ship next year. If the products stand up to Bechtolsheim’s lofty claims, they could help EMC attain a new degree of leadership in flash storage.
May 5, 2014 · Updated: The storage leader is buying the Andy Bechtolsheim-backed DSSD, which will become part of EMC's emerging technology unit.
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Now let’s forward to May 2014 and the acquisition by EMC. Onstage, in the keynote with Joe Tucci, Bechtolsheim specifically referenced their upcoming product as “the world’s fastest storage array – that’s DSSD”. He also referenced “accelerating big data and in-memory databases in real-time” and that the product was “all about Hadoop and SAP HANA”. ...
EMC already have precedent for trying to create a device such as DSSD. Project Thunder was announced by EMC in February 2012, and within 12 months was a dead project. However things change quickly in IT and we’ve seen the rise of in-memory databases (like SAP HANA), the (relative) popularity of platforms like Hadoop and new hardware such as NVDIMM,...
People like Andy Bechtolsheim aren’t going to be working on simply creating the next VMAX for EMC. The technology being developed will be a radical departure from what exists today. EMC are at risk of losing a lot of business to the cloud, to self-build private clouds and to whoever can harness technology like NVDIMM to build scale-out flash comput...
May 6, 2014 · DSSD, which had been in stealth mode, was founded by Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, and helps complete EMC's strategy of 'flash everywhere.' EMC Acquires Server-Side Flash ...
May 7, 2014 · Menlo Park, Calif.-based DSSD was founded by ZFS-creators Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, as well as Andy Bechtolsheim, who is also chairman and chief development officer at Arista Networks. The startup will operate as a standalone unit within EMC's Emerging Technology Products division, with Bechtolsheim serving as its strategic advisor.
