A long time ago when I was at Basho we had a project with a major storage vendor to basically turn hard disks into individual Riak database nodes, so that all t

A long time ago when I was at Basho we had a project with a major storage vendor to basically turn hard disks into individual Riak database nodes, so that all the scaling, redundancy, rebalancing, etc. would be pushed up to the network and database layer. I don’t think it was ever commercialized though.