Storage Software development is for everyone (really?)
Today i've had a whole new experience yet again regarding software development. I've asked some of my guys to look out for storage application development for sometime now. It appears that we might be able to put it to a good use.
The easiest way to be in Storage business (storage brand - storage vendor) is... Can you guess? Yes, the easiest way to be in storage business is to find the outsourced partner who would manufacture your system for you. This reduces a lot of pressure from your R&D team to only worry about the quality of the product, not the manufacturing, not the supply chain, not the logistics. You just focus on making sure that your product feature is good enough to compete with the big players. None of the small storage companies are able to afford multi-million manufacturing facility. They all have to rely on one storage OEM to another. The common names in this Storage OEM are Xyratex and Dot Hill . There are many OEM vendors in Taiwan that i wouldn't want to name names. Xyratex is known to manufacture for a number of companies ranging from traditional FC storage vendors like NetApp to new iSCSI vendors like Intransa. Dot Hill is known to produce a bunch of FC storage devices for Sun MicroSystems.
So it's my job this year to look for an OEM vendor who's willing to open their architecture so that we at NorthPole can come up with NorthPole storage offerings. We plan to send out bunch of stuffs ranging from easy-to-use one-click storage for small-office-home-office (SOHO) until medium-end best-of-breed backup software/hardware for small-medium businesses (SMB).
We'll see whether the chief architect who's going to be in London for 5 months can pull this through while pulling a much harder workload. Else, i might have to make a deal with his son (donut) to pow wow with him to get this off the ground. Hopefully Donut has enough special mind trick to send to his slave. ;p Omm.. Omm.. Omm..
Tomorrow we'll go back to Storage technologies again. I have to contact donut's dad now. Omm.. Bow-wow-wow-wow.
The easiest way to be in Storage business (storage brand - storage vendor) is... Can you guess? Yes, the easiest way to be in storage business is to find the outsourced partner who would manufacture your system for you. This reduces a lot of pressure from your R&D team to only worry about the quality of the product, not the manufacturing, not the supply chain, not the logistics. You just focus on making sure that your product feature is good enough to compete with the big players. None of the small storage companies are able to afford multi-million manufacturing facility. They all have to rely on one storage OEM to another. The common names in this Storage OEM are Xyratex and Dot Hill . There are many OEM vendors in Taiwan that i wouldn't want to name names. Xyratex is known to manufacture for a number of companies ranging from traditional FC storage vendors like NetApp to new iSCSI vendors like Intransa. Dot Hill is known to produce a bunch of FC storage devices for Sun MicroSystems.
So it's my job this year to look for an OEM vendor who's willing to open their architecture so that we at NorthPole can come up with NorthPole storage offerings. We plan to send out bunch of stuffs ranging from easy-to-use one-click storage for small-office-home-office (SOHO) until medium-end best-of-breed backup software/hardware for small-medium businesses (SMB).
We'll see whether the chief architect who's going to be in London for 5 months can pull this through while pulling a much harder workload. Else, i might have to make a deal with his son (donut) to pow wow with him to get this off the ground. Hopefully Donut has enough special mind trick to send to his slave. ;p Omm.. Omm.. Omm..
Tomorrow we'll go back to Storage technologies again. I have to contact donut's dad now. Omm.. Bow-wow-wow-wow.
posted by Peter Srivaree-Ratana at
4:37 PM
1 Comments:
Hi man, are u refering to me as the Chief Architect or someone else, just curious?
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