Name's BOND, JBOND: Igneous's ARM strap-on is for your drives only
Summary
There were two parts to Igneous’ concept: a subscription service to a managed on-premises storage array presented like a public cloud S3 API-accessed storage service; and the actual technology, with two 1U stateless x86 dataRouters (aka controllers) fronting a 4U dataBox containing 60 nano-servers (ARM server + 1Gbit/s Ethernet port + 3.5-inch disk drive). Nano-servers can simply fail in place.” Each strap-on board has a 32-bit ARMv7 1GHz dual-ARM-Cortex-A9-core Marvell Armada 370 system-on-chip that includes two 1Gbps Ethernet ports and can talk SATA to the direct-attached 3.5-inch disk drive. Target applications would involve datasets generated by machines, with a need for low latency and high throughput. Bhageshpur’s backing VCs and customers get much more information about these promised Igneous data services, but only under a non-disclosure agreement, which we weren’t offered, of course. That left us frustrated, and scrabbling to try and imagine what the heck was sexy enough about these coming services to unlock VC and customer wallets.
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