Salvatore Genovese at the .NET Developer’s Journal reports today that HP has acquired a cloud computing software company IBRIX:
HP and IBRIX announced a definitive agreement for HP to acquire
IBRIX, a leading provider of enterprise-class file serving software that includes data protection, high-availability features and data management services for extreme scale-out, cloud and high-performance computing deployments.
Customers with large-scale, data-intensive application environments find that storage performance often becomes a bottleneck for their workflows. IBRIX’s solutions allow enterprises to easily and cost-effectively store massive amounts of user-generated data.
Our own James Watters is working on the story to dig deeper about what it means, but it initially looks to us to be somewhat of a response to Sun’s recent acquisition of Lustre.
“HP is the private internal cloud incumbent, share leader in volume systems, strong in volume storage; they’ve been talking volume standards for years and years,” said Watters. “What the next move from that position of incumbency is isn’t exactly clear, and this may be it.”
James will be investigating and have more for us soon on this.
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