Sorenson says that HP is currently developing CASA to work with Cisco's MDS 9000 Fibre Channel switch family. Cisco has said the Andiamo Systems Inc. switches will provide an "open platform for hosting third-party storage applications such as network-based virtualization and replication," but it has not released details of when this functionality will be available (see Cisco Takes Spinnaker for a Spin).
"The work we're doing with Cisco is less public, but we have their product in our lab," Sorenson says.
He also says HP has "had conversations" with McData Corp. (Nasdaq: MCDTA) about developing a version of CASA for McData's proposed application-oriented switch module.
Mike Gustafson, McData's senior VP of marketing, says the company's Intrepid 6064 and 6140 directors will be able to support an "intelligent" SAN services module, which he expects McData to deliver in 2004. "Right now, there's a lot of discussion about what goes into the intelligence, and the technology isn't as complicated as the business issues," he says. "When the market is going to be spending money on this, we know we'll be there."
For HP, the process of opening CASA to third-party switches involves "putting some client software on the switch," with command-and-control functions continuing to reside on the appliance, Sorenson says. In other words, he claims, it's not going to require a major overhaul of the core CASA software, which incorporates Compaq's VersaStor technology and the virtualization software of StorageApps, the startup HP bought two years ago.
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