Other industry players arent quite so discreet. I would describe it as a beer can with a motor, says Andre Hedrick, president and CTO of iSCSI software vendor PyX Technologies Inc. [Ed. note: I need a beer!] It will go really fast, but just hope theres not a problem, because theres nothing there to protect you. He insists that if you turned off the internal payload checks on iSCSI, it would scream down the wire, too.
In addition, Hedrick points out, HyperSCSI isnt based on industry standards. This is great for folks that want to be locked into a single vendor without any path to get out, he wrily notes. Moreover, the only HyperSCSI implementation available today is for Linux.
While there are plenty of pros and cons to the raw Ethernet-based HyperSCSI protocol, Balint Fleischer, CTO at Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) says its irrelevant, since customers arent asking for the technology.
Were not negative or positive, he says. We just havent seen it popping up on our radar screen.
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