Neither FalconStor nor Quantum responded to inquiries about a potential arrangement at press time.
Meanwhile, EMC may be looking for help in another area as well. Curlin's note yesterday indicates that the vendor's longstanding partnership with Ibrix, which is also an EMC Select partner, may be coming into a new phase: "While EMC has its own internally developed cluster-file system project, codenamed Maui, it appears they have re-engaged Ibrix as a hedge to problems they have encountered with Maui," wrote Curlin. "Apparently, both Maui and Ibrix will be capable of operating on the Hulk hardware platform, however our sources believe the Maui solution has not performed to expectations."
Ibrix could go to market with Maui, Curlin thinks, but be displaced once EMC's own solution is in order.
Neither EMC nor Ibrix had comments on the situation at press time. Stay tuned for more on these situations as developments unfold.
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