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It wouldn't be as big as you think. This really doesn't work as a means to peer information effectively since the amount of transactional traffic it generates would be far too great. What this sort of model is great at is broadcast based traffic, and if you look closely to how we model the internet this is already being done by internet based larger companies like Google and Amazon.

In these models the master pushes out data which is cached at local substations and then relayed to whatever requests it via unicast or multicast using clever routing setups to make sure that user requests travel as short a distance as possible to an available distribution node. When the data isn't there it is pulled down, cached and then set out.

What EMC claims that they are trying to do is allow this to work through a two-way setup where nodes can send data back. This is possible, but only for small systems where locking data is possible to avoid potential conflicts. Node to node peering with limited editing can allow for multiple simultaneous editors, but this gets very inefficient very quickly. So yes, it is interesting, but potential gains here would be more massive for small businesses than big ones who can already do this to some degree.

I should have worded it a BIT BETTER. My mistake.

What this will give companies like akamai is basically a NAS for each city , and save on storage costs. Same for media companies.

This should drive storage costs down , allowing the company to cram more gear in the same rack space they use now.
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