Another analyst thinks some of the shared-storage players are giving their wares a questionable spin. According to David Vellante, co-founder and senior storage analyst for analyst forum Wikibon, RevStor's claim to be a security vendor may not play well. Vellante says most users won't go to a startup for data security.
Marketing quirks aside, Vellante sees an interesting future ahead for companies intent on virtualizing leftover server storage or simply building SANs on commodity servers. "I do think these inventions have value and I expect many of these companies will get bought out by larger players looking to get into this space and/or as a hedge," he writes in an email to Byte and Switch.
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