Just sat through EMC CEO Joe Tucci’s keynote for EMC World 2008.
Conspicuous by its absence: Maui; the software piece of the Hulk/Maui global data repository [see EMC's Maui and everybody else].
Joe promised Hulk/Maui in 7 months last November. EMC showed the hardware at NAB last month. But the software has always been the hard part.
Some inside skinny
Spoke to an EMC customer – and loyal StorageMojo reader – after the Goo Goo Dolls concert last night. He’d seen a Maui demo and confirmed that it looked like a productized OceanStore – a layer of software above local pools of storage.
The StorageMojo take
This is a very tough problem, so I’m not surprised that they didn’t make Joe’s deadline. I expect they’ll announce something – there’s an item about Global Data Recovery yet to come – but there isn’t the kind of hoopla that says “we nailed it!”
Which is good news for EMC competitors. Well marketed, Maui is a very compelling reason to turn even more of your data center over to EMC. Competitors are catching a break. Will they take advantage of it?
Comments welcome, as always. And here’s a picture from the Goo Goo Dolls concert.
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I just did a Google image search for EMC Hulk and it didn’t find any hardware, but your face was one of the top results.
Wes, that was very bad and extremely funny.
Hi Robin,
EMC had a session on Hulk at EMC World. The session was called, “Dense Storage – Overview of the New EMC InfiniFlex Storage Platform”.
InfiniFlex is 12 servers and up to 300 SAS or SATA drives in a 44u rack. Maui software is not mentioned, but I think your client’s, Ibrix, software is running on the InfiniFlex’s demos. Ask Ibrix about InfiniFlex and Maui.
The GotITSolutions blog has some info on Hulk/InfiniFlex:
http://gotitsolutions.org/2008/05/19/emc-infiniflex.html