Posts Tagged archive storage

Hey SEC, Time to De-Hype WORM

Posted by Gary MacFadden in Wikibon on October 5, 2009


Last week I was having a lively discussion with a colleague regarding the most over hyped technologies of the past decade.  While many worthy candidates came to mind I settled on WORM (Write Once Read Many) as my personal favorite primarily because my initiation into the arcane world of regulatory compliance via the SEC began when a client of mine from a large brokerage firm called me up in November of 1998 to ask  if I would look into the legal and technology implications of Rule 17a-4.

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Hulk a.k.a. Infiniflex 12000 a.k.a. EMC Atmos Hardware.

Posted by bmottram in Wikibon on June 8, 2009


Just in case there are still some folks out there interested in hardware I thought an update to the Hulk saga might be of interest.

At the recent EMC World event in Orlando I managed to view the somewhat neutered successor of what was originally planned to be a highly dense storage array with the “jack or better” features normally expected in a functional enterprise array.

It was initially exposed to public scrutiny in November 2008 as the the Infiniflex 12000 but that label has apparently been assigned to the product archives with the current moniker being the neutral term, Atmos Hardware.

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