Pillar's mission is ambitious. (See Larry's Stealth Storage Startup.) Its systems are designed to be used for SAN and NAS, three tiers of storage, and everything from transactional data to backup and archiving -- all in one box. And while many startups tackle a new technology area that pits them against other private companies, Pillar is taking on established storage leaders such as EMC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, and Network Appliance.
"Three million lines of code later it's tough to develop one platform that goes against a lot of products all in the same box, with the same storage platform, same management software," Workman says. "We range in price from $75,000 to $1 million. We do go directly against just about all the products from EMC, IBM, HP, Hitachi, and NetApp. Well, we don't go against the [low-end HP] MSA 1000 and [EMC] Clariion 300 yet. We'll have a whole new box coming out for the midmarket."
We recently sat down with Workman to find out exactly what he has been doing with Larry's money, and how he plans to spend more if it before Pillar becomes profitable.
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