Linux-Watch: Linux Cluster Startup Secures $3 Million Funding

“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…”

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