Irreverence

posted on 09 May 2008 14:27

Blade computer and storage product supplier Verari tells us it has done something significant for someone but won't tell us who it is. How useful is that?

What it's done is to announce that it has completed a milestone shipment of a hybrid storage and server blade product to a non-disclosed customer. Gee, thanks.

The customer is 'a global innovative technology provider' and 'worldwide technology leader' who 'hosts data and enterprise applications based on Web 2.0 infrastructures.' Said unknown global cloud services provider bought 500 examples of Verari's SB550 DataServer, a hybrid server and storage blade, amounting to more than 4.6PB of storage. Nice sale!

Who is it? Google? Microsoft? Amazon? Can't be Nirvanix; it only provides backup services^*. Can't be EMC because it only provides cloud storage services.

I imagine Verari is relieved to have got any announcement out at all.

^{* Update: In actuality, Nirvanix has not, to date, released a backup application - at all.  Nirvanix provides a development platform with an Application Programming Interface (API) that companies build their cloud storage applications upon.  All API and development applications can be found here.}

<sup>Nirvanix has a number of companies that have built their applications on top of Nirvanix that include backup.  An example is www.wizzdrive.com.

[Chris Mellor, editor.]</sup>