wj- BY the end of June we should be able to compare EMC to SUNW approach. What will JIRO do for SUNW? They are already talking about this on the SUNW thread..
I just received the ppt's from the presentations at Storage Networking World. Looked at one of EMC's and it looked almost exactly like last year's: A few Symmetrics on the bottom (now with DG storage, too) talking thru a SAN cloud to a bunch of servers. Above the servers is the inter/intranet cloud with the client (a browser) at the very top. The difference is that, somewhere in the upper cloud, there is a "Management Station" which, presumably, has some control over all of the servers, switches and storage. I guess this is what EMC plans to use to commoditize the servers. But isn't it just another server, a metaserver? It looks like a pretty big task to implement to me. The other EMC presentation says 2003 for the shift.
Sun had a presentation of an existing SAN installation which uses Jiro for the management logic (probably on the servers). It's not obvious that EMC is 2-3 years ahead.
I missed the event, itself, due to a deadline.
Oh, I'd give an URI, but it requires an account.
On a similar topic, the first NAS "appliance" that I ever saw, in the mid-80s, was a Sun server. The creators of NFS have been all over that for a long time. They just haven't produced a tailored kernel for the purpose.
-tck
It will be a fine day in the near future when, after all this time, SUNW finally shows the new stuff and says the phone lines are open to take orders!! Hope it will have been worth the wait. |
