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Where the SAM-SD Concept Originated

March 25, 2017

The SAM-SD concept, the idea of enterprise class open storage, really started for me when working on Wall Street around late 2006 when faced with the need to provide large scale, high performance network filesystem storage to a massive compute cluster, and we found that nothing currently on the market was meeting our needs.

The SAM-SD Model 1

March 22, 2017

The first real SAM-SD, the one famous for acquiring the name, was nothing but a specification, originally presented in Manhattan at a meeting of the SpiceCorps NYC user group where I presented on the topic of “open storage” and provided an example spec for building a practical, real world storage device.