What's DriveScale up to? Mix-'n'-match server and disk storage, for starters

It's all about 'composable' infrastructure

Backgrounder DriveScale is a startup that emerged from a three-year stealth effort earlier this year with hardware and software to dynamically present externally connected JBODS to servers as if they were local. The idea is to provide composable server-storage combos for changing Hadoop-type distributed workloads."