Seriously? More Money Thrown at Storage.

Oh, joy. Vast Data, a company that sells… *storage* (like we don’t have enough of that shit), is apparently in talks to raise another obscene amount of money – up to $30 BILLION. Thirty billion! For glorified hard drives and some software? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

Alphabet’s CapitalG (because Google needs *more* places to park its cash) and Nvidia (who are already swimming in it thanks to the AI hype train) are circling like vultures. They’re supposedly impressed by Vast Data’s growth, which I assume means they’ve managed to convince enough people that their solution is somehow revolutionary. It isn’t.

The whole thing hinges on this “disaggregated storage architecture” – basically splitting up the storage so it’s not all in one place. Groundbreaking. Truly. They claim it’s faster and cheaper, which is what *every* storage vendor claims. I bet they also have “AI-powered” features now because everything does these days.

Look, it’s a good business, fine. But $30 billion? That’s just… ridiculous. It’ll probably get spent on lavish parties and pointless marketing before actually improving anything useful. And when the bubble bursts, don’t come crying to me.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of storage, I once had to recover data from a RAID array that was held together with duct tape and prayers. The sysadmin thought hot-swapping drives while the system was running was a good idea. It wasn’t. Spent three days rebuilding it, only for the CEO’s cat pictures to be the most important files. Waste of my goddamn time.

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