Irreverence

posted on 17 May 2008 10:56

Wachovia Capital Markets issued a report on the NAB Show at Las Vegas in April which included this text:-

"EMC Exhibit – EMC had an exhibit at the NAB conference highlighted the company’s “Hulk” solution, which appears to be currently shipping under a “quiet” GA release and is branded as the Infiniflex 1000 solution. Our understanding is that this solution is the combination of dedicated filers utilizing IBRIX’s scalable software-based parallel file system and JBOD back-end disks. The configuration we had seen looked to have 30TB/server capacity, which equated to 300TB total (using 10 servers). Our conversations were a bit more evasive with regard to the “Maui” product, which could represent software rather than a hardware solution. Our conversations suggest that “Maui” could be focused on distributed content storage and fall within the company’s “cloud” architecture solutions."

The Ibrix cluster file system could be an alternative to EMC's own Maui software for Hulk hardware.

^{[Chris Mellor.]}