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posted on 15 February 2008 09:51

Atrato is a new storage company. Its website ...

... "Atrato’s virtualization storage system enables instant access to infinite stores of data for applications ranging from streaming video content to supercomputing and high-volume transaction processing."

"We’ve engineered a high-density storage system with integrated application acceleration. Better yet? Atrato continues to exceed our own benchmark performance. Atrato offers the only three-year maintenance-free, fail-in-place system available today. All that and we drive up to 10,000 I/Os per second or 3000 streams in 5RU – this is the tough stuff we do. Instantaneous access to infinite content?"

Other parts of its website talks of drive arrays as Sealed Arrays of Identical Disks (SAID). It talks of screaming speed and total digital content security.

For high-performance computing (HPC) it claims to offer, through an "Atrato Acceleration Engine, instant access to infinite stores of data. And that's just the beginning. It also:
- Delivers up to 10,000 IOPS in a 5 RU footprint
- Cuts connectivity costs up to 90%
- Slashes rack space and cooling requirements up to 80%
- Offers three-years of maintenance-free operation on the sealed array."

Sounds intriguing. Could this be a BlueArc-like, ASIC-enhanced storage controller?

See more here.