IT Press Tour: Turing Award DNA at S3 prices - the tiny MIT spin-out whose file system beat Weka and Amazon at petabyte scale
Tucked into an office about 20 minutes west of Boston, sits a lean MIT spin-out that has quietly out-benchmarked some of the biggest names in storage. I visited this week as...
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