What's the latest on Pillar Data Systems, the storage startup personally bankrolled by Larry Ellison? [See Larry's Stealth Storage Startup.]
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Dear Salty,
I went straight to the source on this one: Mike Workman, the ex-IBMer who's president and CEO of Pillar. He tells me the company is still targeting general availability of its storage system for the first quarter of 2004.
Details remain sketchy about what Pillar is working on, exactly. But Workman provides some clues. The disk storage system will handle both SAN and NAS, including support for both CIFS and NFS protocols. He says the hardware side is "pretty much done, works, and looks great... SAN performance is awesome, NAS is being worked." Pillar, Workman claims, is currently coming in under budget. (Its funding reportedly consists of $100 million from Big Daddy Ellison, though company officials won't confirm this.) It has a headcount of 240 "huge for a startup," concedes Workman but still under plan by about 5 percent.
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