"We aren't going to wake up one day and find all this intelligence in the switch. That's insane," he said in an interview with Byte and Switch yesterday at the company's launch of the Symmetrix DMX. "There will be some on the server, some in the network switch -- which is one piece of the networking layer -- and some on the array." (See EMC Soups Up Symm.)
That's just the point, Sundaresh says: The incumbent players want to preserve their existing business models, which are predicated on locking customers into their technology. "Every attempt so far [at storage virtualization] has been a half-hearted, marginal attempt," he says. "The bias for all of these players has been to preserve the status quo."
Still, all signs point to the immense challenge Candera will have convincing the leading sellers of storage and SAN switch gear -- EMC and its ilk -- to resell its box. We'll see how this shuffleboard match plays out.
Meanwhile, a panel of storage processor startup executives at last month's RBC Capital Markets conference generally agreed that, while intelligent SAN services switches such as Candera's would roll out this year, the segment wouldn't see meaningful volumes until 2004 [ed. note: if ever]. (See Smart SAN Switches: Not This Year
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