Fortress EMEA

It didn't leak since Vance Checketts told Chris Mellor up front but it did get out sooner than I'd have liked it to.

Yes Fortress has risen in Ireland and it will be available to customers in EMEA soon. I was sitting on this until testing was complete and it was open for business but who am I to argue with someone with hair as good as Vance's.

Stay tuned for further details but one thing I will add some colour to..

"The technology in the back-end systems is very scalable and very reliable." He said 3X mirroring is common in large service providers such as Yahoo!, with three different copies of data in three separate data centres so the data is always available, no matter what. "We don't have the same overhead but offer the same or better reliability. Multi-petabyte storage systems are our speciality."

Okay so now you're asking how EMC could offer better reliability with much less overhead?

Distributed Reed Solomon encoding +  mathematical Secret Sauce

It does a body good.