In the mid-90s, companies bought bigger servers than they needed so they wouldn't have to replace them the minute they hit maximum capacity. But this over-provisioning meant they were paying for a lot of equipment that wasn't being used.
"Instead of doing these forklift upgrades, companies are now looking to spread the workload across multiple servers," says Ruiz. Sistina contends that a distributed file system like its Global File System (GFS) lets organizations consolidate existing server and storage resources into a single management domain, linking thousands of diverse data storage repositories into a single SAN. Essentially, each server shares a single file store and can serve files to other systems on the network via Common Internet File System (CIFS) and Network File System (NFS) protocols.
In order to support its customers in the financial services and telecom sectors, Sistina will spend its new funds expanding its internal sales and support organization and its channel. "Our banking customers need 'round-the-clock support. Whereas our older customers could just reboot a server, these guys in banking cannot go down," says Ruiz.
Sistina also intends to ink more partnerships like the one it has with Mainline Information Systems, one of IBM's biggest server resellers. "Expect more of these announcements with Hewlett-Packard Co. [NYSE: HPQ] and other major systems players," Ruiz says (see Sistina Clusters Linux on Mainframes
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