BlueArc partners attending today's event included Brocade, HDS, Asigra, BakBone, Storwize, Ciena, and Index Engines, so it appears likely that these firms will be involved in the vendor's file services strategy.
"We will provide some of these services ourselves with our own IP and we will extend that by opening up our data and file management APIs to leverage other third-party capabilities," explained Gustafson.
BlueArc, which competes with EMC's Celerra and NetApp's FAS and V Series products, is clearly looking to give its systems a performance boost to lay the foundation for its set of yet-to-be-announced services. "This gives you the headroom to run these file services at very high speeds," explained Jon Affeld, senior director of product marketing.
At least one BlueArc user said that he is keen to take a look at these enhancements, largely thanks to the vendor's file services roadmap. "The entertainment industry is just about the worst for structuring data -- these people are creative," said Tom Burns, director of post production infrastructure at movie company Technicolor , explaining that his organization sometimes creates up to three and a half Tbytes of new data every night.
The exec, whose firm worked on Spider-Man 3 for Sony Pictures, explained that he is particularly interested in shaving his data footprint. "I am very interested in de-duplication, I have an enormous need for these features.
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for Juniper Networks, explains how the advanced technology is transforming operations.
Contact center leaders from 8x8, Awaken Intelligence, and 360insight discuss the importance of agent experience.
AI may force enterprises to rewire parts of their data centers so they are fully optimized to run such workloads. The question is do you use Ethernet or InfiniBand?
