Archivas is set to emerge from stealth Monday, but it got funding of $6 million last May from North Bridge Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners.
Archivas already faces formidable odds. Between Rodriguez's time at the Times and the start of the new company, EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) released its Centera archiving system to handle fixed content (see EMC Preps Centera). EMC Centera has defined this space, Rodriguez admits. And it's clearly tough to be the new guy when the other choice is an established market behemoth.
Other storage systems, such as Isilon Systems' IsilonIQ, also use a cluster file system similar to Archivas's to handle large files such as digital film and medical records (see Isilon Intros Clustered Storage Systems).
Undaunted, Rodriguez thinks Archivas can make it, for several reasons. First is price. Rodriguez says his online archive will cost a penny a megabyte, or one half the cost of Centera.
Rodriguez also maintains that Archivass object-based software can survive the inevitable hardware platform changes that come with storing long-term data. Some new regulations maintain that certain records must be kept for decades.
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