In other words, Deepfile is keen to differentiate itself from the horde of other SRM companies that are struggling to keep it together (see BMC Folds Storage Unit, EMC to Acquire Prisa, Finally, IBM Snaps Up TrelliSoft, Astrum Catches 11 Sweet Ones, and MonoSphere Whirls Out).
"SRM vendors are coming at it from the physical end of the disk... We look at metadata about the file," he says. But however you want to characterize it, the goal is to better utilize the hardware resources you already have -- and Deepfile will face plenty of competition with this message (see our reports on Policy-Based Storage and SAN Management).
It appears that Deepfile's closest competitor is startup Arkivio Inc., whose software similarly analyzes data and moves it to various storage resources based on preset policies. This week, Arkivio released a Unix version of its Auto-Stor product (see Arkivio Adds Unix Support and Arkivio Lifts Lid on Automation).
At least one analyst we talked to thinks Deepfile has a good shot at making it. "Unlike most SRM and ARM [automated resource management] solutions, Deepfile's software does not use agents," says Nancy Marrone, senior analyst at Enterprise Storage Group Inc. Instead, she says, it "mounts the file system, scans what is on the file system, and the information is then recorded and 'analyzed,' producing correlated reports."
Both Deepfile products will work with Windows NT and 2000 file servers, Unix systems, and NAS devices. Auditor is available now starting at $10,000 for an initial 2 Tbytes of data managed per year. Enforcer will be available in the second quarter starting at $25,000.
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