"Terascala Inc., a startup developing a next-generation Linux storage cluster architecture, announced today that it has secured $3 million in first round funding from Ascent Venture Partners. The company's initial product offering is 'powerful, efficient, managed computing and storage Blades.'
"Each blade contains eight hot-swappable 500 or 750GB disk drives, hardware RAID, an AMD Opteron multi-core processor, and high performance network connections. All together, 150TB (terabytes) of data storage can be configured in a single industry-standard rack, with over 50 racks or 7500TB supported in a single cluster..."
