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Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (4527)4/15/2002 12:50:18 PM
From: David A. Lethe  Read Replies (2) of 4808
 
Scott - I don't follow Datacore or InterSAN too closely, so let me just comment on virtualization SW in general. Long-term, I see these companies as being in for some trouble. Reason is that the HW vendors are adding better virtualization into their engines, as well as add-ons like snapshot backup. Today, really only the big boys have it. However, newer firmware releases of the more popular RAID engines have extended virtualization features, as well as snapshot backup built in, which pretty much eliminates need for external virt. HW + SW for many users.

(Of course there are features that Datacore can do, like externally mirror an EMC logical disk to a cheap FC or SCSI disk, which has a lot of appeal to some users. This will never be done or supported within the built-in virtualization of the RAID engines).

So ... unless DataCore develops lots of patents and gets in bed with RAID vendors, and maybe develops an imbedded solution so it can run on the controller engine, then I see them becoming an unnecessary bottleneck and point-of-failure. DataCore et al will be limited to heterogenious environments.

The RAID vendors will do the virtualization w/o sharing any revenue or IP with DataCore. They can write virt. functionality themselves. Correction ... they've written it already ;)
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