US Patent 10091904 Storage sled for data center

Examples may include a sled for a rack of a data center including physical storage resources. The sled comprises an array of storage devices and an array of memory. The storage devices and memory are directly coupled to storage resource processing circuits which are themselves, directly coupled to dual-mode optical network interface circuitry. The dual-mode optical network interface circuitry can have a bandwidth equal to or greater than the storage devices.