A clever purchase and further confirmation of EMC’s intent in this Flash market
EMC kicked off its annual EMC World shindig by announcing that it is buying DSSD, the hush-hush chip startup funded by Sun co-founder and Silicon Valley superstar Andy Bechtolsheim.
EMC CMO Jeremy Burton announced the news Monday morning in Las Vegas.
Here’s the EMC statement:
“DSSD has been quietly developing an entirely new tier of flash storage designed to help companies store and analyze the unprecedented amounts of data stemming from mega trends like social, mobile, cloud and Big Data. The DSSD architecture promises ‘game-changing’ performance for I/O-intensive in-memory databases and Big Data workloads such as SAP HANA and Hadoop.”
DSSD was founded four years ago by Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, both of whom have experience building storage operating systems. EMC ledDSSD’s Series A investment round.
Here’s how Gigaom’s Stacey HIgginbotham described the company’s work a year ago:
” … the startup is building a new type of chip…
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