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Start-Up's Profile: Interlock Technology
By Jean-Jacques Maleval, Thu, March 18th, 2010
Jump right to our comments
To migrate from Centera to another storage platform
Interlock Technology
Headquarters:
Cambridge, MA
Born in:
2009
Funding:
Privately funded
Main executives:
- Gary Lieberman, CEO: has been an independent storage consultant to many F500 companies and a co-founder of Fabric Data Networks, a start-up specializing in storage router based intelligence; has also held management positions with Cereva and StorageNetworks.
- Mike Horgan, CTO: worked at EMC included product management and engineering roles in the Centera organization and serving as a technical contributor and author on the SNIA XAM 1.0 specification; prior to that, was an independent software consultant to several small-to-midsize companies in the Boston area; also spent a year at the NYSE working on trading floor automation systems.
- Michael Cavers, VP, sales and alliances: was director of strategic accounts for Tele Atlas North America’s Consumer Wireless team, acquired by TomTom for $4.3 billion.
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Technology:
Interlock Technology data assessment and migration services give EMC Centera users SRM-like visibility into their Centera environments and enables heterogeneous movement of data between active archive CAS systems and any standard NAS or SAN device. At the same time, it takes advantage of Centera’s massive parallelism enables migration speeds of up to 6TB a day. The company's data migration also can unlock a Centera and seed the cloud with its data. The service is delivered via a three-phase process that requires a custom-built appliance that can either be shipped physically or, to meet an individual organization’s security requirements, downloaded as a system of virtual machines to a customer’s existing VMware infrastructure.
Once the Interlock appliance is installed in a customer data center, it can access and extract Centera data via the XAM API, transforming the C-Clips into a file system layout for use on a SAN/NAS storage target. As a result, organizations can keep their archive data and preserve existing compliance standards while moving it to another vendor’s device. Interlock can move CAS data to any device that presents a file system, whether it be SAN or NAS. If there are compliance requirements, the customer also needs to look at technologies such as NetApp Snaplock or IBM’s IA, or any WORM device the supports archiving. It also make migrated data available to data warehousing and BI offerings and provide a more cost efficient way to meet compliance standards.
Distributors and OEMs:
NetApp, IBM, Glasshouse Technologies
Number of customers:
11
Main customers:
Financial services, healthcare and general archiving customers
Market:
Any organization with an installed EMC Centera
Our comments :
We don't know another firm offering this kind of service: the
possibility to migrate Centera data to another storage platform. It
helps to have a CTO who was formerly at EMC in the Centera organization.
EMC proposed its Centera Intra-Cluster 4-Node Data Migration service,
but to move the data from a Centera to another one. They are several
companies doing just email migration.
To give an idea of the potential number of customers of Interlock with the possibility to be unlocked from proprietary technology: in
May 2009, EMC said to have shipped 11,000 Centera to 5,000 customers,
for a total of 370TB of storage.
If there is one firm that is not interested to buy the start-up, it's
EMC. Or maybe to destroy it. To avoid that, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp or
other ones in CAS appliances could be interested to acquire this today's
unique technology.
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