The difference between Max-T and BlueArc is in how theyve chosen to tackle the problem. Max-Ts product, codenamed Sledgehammer, is a piece of smart software [ed.note: sounds smart!] that resides on a bog-standard Intel server. The beta ships to customers this week.
BlueArcs Si7500 SiliconServer, on the other hand, is all hardware. Reprogrammable chips run TCP/IP and NFS in hardware, because only in hardware can you get orders-of-magnitude-faster response times, according to BlueArc.
Nonsense, says Sastri. What you need is lots of clever software programmers. [I pity the fool...]
Max-T's team looks strong. Sastri built supercomputers at NEC Corp. (Nasdaq: NIPNY) for about 10 years. Michael Huges, VP of research and development, ran product development at Discreet Logic, bought by AutoDesk for $440 million. Giovanni Tagliamonti, VP of finance, hails from Andersen Consulting; and Bill Meder, (aka Bill Meter because hes so expensive, apparently) was previously a senior exec at IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and is currently onboard to help the company raise money.
On that note, the company looks like it is close to running on empty. Max-T won a seed round of $2.5 million in February from TeleSystem Ltd., which is expected to last it through to the end of the year.
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