Were solving a problem that today is basically unsolved, Marantis director of product marketing Rick Walsworth says. Our product recognizes traffic flows based on application, and it recognizes prioritized mission-critical applications.
Analysts say this kind of intelligent capability is spot on. In storage networking, just having a faster network doesnt solve anything, says Dan Tanner of the Aberdeen Group. If you add more nodes, you just have more to manage. Thats why moving intelligence into the storage network is a good idea.
Tanner says there's definitely a market for such intelligent storage switches. The money usually follows the intelligence. I can say the backers are in the right area.
But while there might be buyers out there for whatever Maranti eventually produces, the Milpitas, Calif.-based company is not the only one seeking them. Besides facing a host of startups heading in the same direction, Nayak says Maranti is expecting tough competition from incumbents Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD)
and McData Corp. (Nasdaq: MCDT). Theyre the ones that wed go head to head with, he says.
On Tuesday, Maranti also plans to announce that John Jarve of Menlo Ventures and Larry Orr of Trinity Ventures have joined its board of directors.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
