Comments on: HP buys IBRIX

By: Tech Field Day Preview: HP | Standalone Sysadmin

Tech Field Day Preview: HP | Standalone Sysadmin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:33:26 +0000

[...] ask, why isn’t it explained. Or linked to. Or something. So I did research. In July of 2009, HP bought Ibrix, a company that specialized in cluster filesystems. To quote Robin Harris: With Polyserve [...]

By: Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:49:57 +0000

No idea. The rumor mill says “not very much” but I’ve yet to hear anything I’d consider authoritative.

By: jjjk

jjjk — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:23:31 +0000

how much did ibrix sell for?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:30:56 +0000

Echo to IDEC, as Arthur Cole mentioned in his article –

“…. at the same time…. ” (HP) “… don’t want to hand over a key enabling technology to your chief competitors.”

….(HP)…”would more likely use Ibrix to set up multi-petabyte architectures for top-tier customers.”

“…HP looks to have the three pillars of data center infrastructure well in hand.” PolyServ, Lefthand, Ibrix.

By: SS

SS — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:32:23 +0000

May not yet only change the order – refer to IDEC’s last line of his/her comments – 1st EMC, 2nd…..

In other words, instead, who can compete to stay in the top list? Who could get yanked out by lack of technology?? EMC is going to use their ATMOS to compete??? IBM uses their GFS? Symantec uses their SFS? NetAPP uses their ongoing project? HP is hopping fairly fast now uses their cheap token pick of Ibrix? And, Oracle? CSCO?

If the existing player does not sense or does not act to the rapid change of the storage diagram. Whoever is ready should be able to go first pick the top list – the $20 Bln market.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:56:02 +0000

IDEC, I agree with you, HP is completing the last few pieces of the puzzle in their storage picture. But, don’t forget, EMC has ATMOS, IBM has GFS, Dell seems doesn’t care about Ibrix kind of technology, and Cisco, sorry to say, an early player.

By: IDEC

IDEC — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:53:59 +0000

Ibrix’s technology is ready, but, they didn’t do well bring their product to market. Either Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, even Cisco who all have proven capability bring product to massive customers.

So, whoever get Ibrix now, get cloud storage, HPC, and traditional/new storage era cutting edge.

Great Move for HP, it is a win win for HP and Ibrix.

1st EMC, 2nd IBM, 3rd HP, 4th DELL may change soon……..stay tune…..

By: brime

brime — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:55:26 +0000

Ibrix was bust, no question about it, the rumour is that VCs are getting less than a $1 on $1.

No surprise there and correction for Robin, Eric Jackson was co-founder and invented everything, Steve Orszag has put his name and the story ends there.

By: Han Solo

Han Solo — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:08:00 +0000

HP’s track record is not so good lately.

Example: They purchased PolyServe and market it totally a single-use application (MS SQL Server), when Polyserve before the HP purchase had a good clustering/replication solution for Linux as well….but no where is it to be found now.

By: Jeff Brue

Jeff Brue — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:28:09 +0000

Mostly because they never bothered to tap into a lot of markets that they could have dominated in. I was looking into a 750 TB solution tied together with IBRIX, but we’ll see now.

I mean seriously HP should be beaten for still selling a 2 Gb fibre storage array, as a current product.

By: an0n0mous

an0n0mous — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:18:50 +0000

Not rumor- fact. Ibrix was on fumes, and couldn’t raise any capital.
Buy price was less than what vc’s put into the company.
8 year old company with 150 customers?…So that means probably 50.
Curious to see how hp puts this acquisition into the stack.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:38:28 +0000

@ joe landman

thx for the extensive explanation. checked the product and it is quite different performance-wise than the HP stuff have (ie impressive).

However, we are currently running a full rack of Isilon IQ12000 nodes and the linear performance growth and the even better nett storage scalability (we grew for 3 nodes to full rack in half a year) is very satisfying to us.
A very important pro with Isilon: scaling of a single share or even folder up to the max of the cluster (up to the claimed max of 5PB). Who else can do that? With HP we’re managing various 16TB shares and fidgety NAS nodes (plain Proliant servers)… Too much headache!

By: Jeff Brue

Jeff Brue — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:08:12 +0000

Kind of ticked off about this….HP buries good technology with bad hardware, and then doesn’t reveal pricing or allow interoperability with non hp solutions.

By: David Magda

David Magda — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:12:43 +0000

Curious to know how many patents HP has from all of these purchases.