Other vendors that had bid on the business were said to be Xyratex, NetApp's current enclosure supplier, and Adaptec. Engenio, we hear, said "Thanks, but no thanks" to the business because margins were too low for its taste. NetApp nemesis EMC sells its low-end Clariion AX100 through Dell starting at $4,900.
Who needs Cisco's intelligent switch, anyway? Maybe not EMC if it can use the intellectual property it picked up last month from failing intelligent switch maker Maranti. The company is making good on a long-standing rumor that it's going out of business, despite what one pundit called "really cool technology at the chip level that lets you look deep within the packet."
Presumably, EMC will refashion Maranti's CoreStor switch to run its Invista virtualization software. EMC confirmed that it had indeed purchased Maranti IP and assets, but wouldn't elaborate on its plans for the technology or how much it had paid for it.
Maybe IBM just isn't cut out to sell low-end storage. After exiting the low-end NAS market, We're hearing that IBM's TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 products are slow starters in their own right. Craig Butler, manager, TotalStorage disk solutions, admits that initial sales of the entry-level arrays were hampered by the fact they didn't come in dual-controller models. Since then, however, "the dual-controller model is working and they're ready to go," says Butler.
There's a new CEO at Revivio. Former CEO Paul Lewis has left the firm to "pursue other interests," says a Revivio spokesperson. "Paul and the Board came to an agreement that different skills were required to lead the company through its next phase of growth," they say. In Lewis' stead, Kirby Wadsworth, senior VP of marketing and business development, has assumed the role of acting president.
