History 2002: “Put Up or Shut Up”

DataCore Software understandably did not appreciate the opinion of EMC’s SVP of infrastructure software, Chris Gallaghan, in a recent article published in VARbusiness: “A lot of these vendors that are proposing virtualization say, ‘You basically put JBOD behind the virtualization appliance,’ but that doesn’t work for a whole host of reasons. If you look at the DataCore product, [for example], it can’t scale because it’s based on off-the-shelf PC technology … If you wanted to put DataCore on a fully loaded Symmetrix, you’d have to put 2 dozen DataCore boxes in front of the Symmetrix just to manage the I/0 load. That doesn’t seem like a good consolidation strategy.”

In response, DataCore has offered, through a press release succinctly entitled “Put up or shut up,” to challenge EMC in a head-to-head storage performance duel, staking a Porsche Turbo for its competitor if it loses.

EMC has yet to respond to the challenge.

Jon Toigo, of the Enterprise Storage Group, offered the following explanation for EMC’s silence: “That’s probably because everyone in management at EMC already owns a Porsche or two – which they drive only when a chauffeured limo is unavailable.”

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 178 on November 2002 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.