The big question is whether users will feel comfortable doing that, bearing in mind that EMC isn't exactly impartial.
One thing's for sure. EMC has accumulated a mountain of information on interoperability. In the past 10 years, the company has plowed $2 billion into its interoperability program. EMC says its spending $250 million a year on it at present, and that figure is accelerating. The labs in which the testing is conducted occupy five acres.
The matrices represent thousands of combinations of products. A total of nearly 400 server models, 40 operating systems, 81 storage software products, 145 networking elements, and 1,200 other devices (ranging from HBAs and drivers to switches and tape subsystems) are represented.
The testing is neverending, EMC says, and the matrices keep on growing. Whenever a vendor introduces a new product or upgrades an existing one, a whole bunch of testing has to be redone, covering all of the possible permutations with other hardware and software.
Other vendors have programs similar to EMC's but havent made their interoperability matrices public. William Hurley, analyst with The Yankee Group, isnt impressed. Its yet another interoperability lab, he says. Just this one cost $2 billion.
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