Not brand-new, but I've not seen it mentioned on here so far. Seagate
Kinetic essentially enables HDDs to present themselves directly over
Ethernet as Swift object storage:
http://www.seagate.com/solutions/cloud/data-center-cloud/platforms/?cmpid=friendly-_-pr-kinetic-us
If the CPUs on these drives have enough oomph for Swift, what about
Ceph OSDs?
Add in some DHCP option based auto-configure mechanism and a small SLC
SSD in each drive (like hybrid drives; Kinetic graphics hint at this
already:
http://www.seagate.com/www-content/ti-dm/_shared/images/figure-3-drive-application-management-storage-software-api-732x642.png)
so we could also eliminate the storage server layer, get smaller
failure domains, and solve the journalling problem - and ultimately
reduce cost and complexity. Basically build a rack with hundreds of
hot-plug Ethernet HDD ports...
Forgive me, I'm just thinking out-loud...
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