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Start-Up's Profile: InQuinox With an Appliance for Symantec De-Dupe Software
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Tue, October 27th, 2009
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Founded by former Symantec/Veritas veterans
Company
InQuinox, LLC
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Born in
2007
Funding
NA
Executives
Brad Hargett, CEO, ramped up several successful start-ups, including Pyramid Technology and OpenVision (merged with Veritas in 1997); prior to InQuinox served various roles within NetApp, including business development manager and channel manager for Decru business unit; formerly held several director-level positions within Symantec/Veritas.
Ray Schafer, co-founder and CTO, former technical product manager for NetBackup; came to Symantec by way of the Veritas acquisition in 2005 and to Veritas from the TKG (The Kernel Group) acquisition in 2001; at TKG, was one of the inventors of the computer systems and restoration method now used in the Symantec NetBackup Bare Metal Restore product.
Jack McKinney, co-founder and VP services, coming from Symantec where he spent several years on the development and test teams for the Bare Metal Restore option to Veritas NetBackup.
Mitchell Mikula, VP software development, designed and led the development of NetBackup Bare Metal Restore.
Technology
Its first products, an appliance for Symantec NetBackup PureDisk de-dupe software, was launched this month. This SD³ appliance can run the software in data centers and remote offices "to minimize data storage footprint and save on energy and maintenance costs". For the hardware part, Corvalent, in x86 platforms for industrial applications, supplies the motherboard, and Atrato the Velocity 1000 disk array supporting HDDs and SSDs. InQuinox said that its appliance draws 5 watts per terabyte and 15 BTUs per hour per terabyte. There are four models, from 1.3TB to 96TB.
Customers
Include Alcatel-Lucent, DTCC, EDS, ERCOT, FDIC, General Motors, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, NetSpend, Symantec, The Vitamin Shoppe and The Walt Disney Company..
Resellers
Include Daymark Solutions and GTSI.
InQuinox, LLC
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Born in
2007
Funding
NA
Executives
Brad Hargett, CEO, ramped up several successful start-ups, including Pyramid Technology and OpenVision (merged with Veritas in 1997); prior to InQuinox served various roles within NetApp, including business development manager and channel manager for Decru business unit; formerly held several director-level positions within Symantec/Veritas.
Ray Schafer, co-founder and CTO, former technical product manager for NetBackup; came to Symantec by way of the Veritas acquisition in 2005 and to Veritas from the TKG (The Kernel Group) acquisition in 2001; at TKG, was one of the inventors of the computer systems and restoration method now used in the Symantec NetBackup Bare Metal Restore product.
Jack McKinney, co-founder and VP services, coming from Symantec where he spent several years on the development and test teams for the Bare Metal Restore option to Veritas NetBackup.
Mitchell Mikula, VP software development, designed and led the development of NetBackup Bare Metal Restore.
Technology
Its first products, an appliance for Symantec NetBackup PureDisk de-dupe software, was launched this month. This SD³ appliance can run the software in data centers and remote offices "to minimize data storage footprint and save on energy and maintenance costs". For the hardware part, Corvalent, in x86 platforms for industrial applications, supplies the motherboard, and Atrato the Velocity 1000 disk array supporting HDDs and SSDs. InQuinox said that its appliance draws 5 watts per terabyte and 15 BTUs per hour per terabyte. There are four models, from 1.3TB to 96TB.
Customers
Include Alcatel-Lucent, DTCC, EDS, ERCOT, FDIC, General Motors, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, NetSpend, Symantec, The Vitamin Shoppe and The Walt Disney Company..
Resellers
Include Daymark Solutions and GTSI.
Our comments :
Our opinion
Symantec offers de-dupe software but not a purpose-built appliance to compete with Data Domain, Quantum, HP D2D backups systems, IBM
ProtecTier and others. But the SD³ is for Symantec' software only.
InQuinox will also launch before the end of the
year SanXfer storage software to allow any hardware to boot a SAN-based
boot disk.
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