"A typical file transfer uses direct movement from file to target, it's a point-to-point relationship," he says. "These guys let files behave like objects. You can have a direct movement from source to target. That makes it faster and more scalable."
Moonwalk was created in 2002 specifically to migrate Novell NetWare files across tiers of storage. The vendor added support for native Windows files in April, although the product was still known only to a handful of early adopters.
Moonwalk quietly forged partnerships with EMC and Sun, gaining certification to move files to their archiving systems. Now Harvey is trying to launch his company by building up a sales channel in the United Sates, U.K., and Germany, and forging OEM deals. He will likely seek a first round of VC funding soon to market the software and grow the ten-person company, after making do so far on a strategic investment from Australian IT outsourcer Dialog and private investors.
The company also has a handful of customers, including the Contoller's Office at Stanford University, the Twinings tea company in London, and The iCapture Centre, a heart and lung research center at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, B.C.
Joe Comeau, IS manager for the iCapture Center, says he's implementing Moonwalk after a six-month testing period. He uses Moonwalk to archive and restore data from his center's digital microscopes to a four-node clustered Xiotech SAN and IBM tape library.
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