* Posts by Mika Borner

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Cisco's uncharted territory: Here be storage dragons

Mika Borner
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Unified?

How can something that is not open and has at least three parties be unified?

Let's see:

Cisco IOS=closed source

VMWare ESX=closed source

EMC Storage=closed source

Windows=closed source

Redhat=partly closed source

Looking at this list we will have at least 3-4 different companies involved (counting EMC/VMWare as 1 or 2).

Let's see Sun's offer:

OpenNetwork (crossbow) = open source

xVM Server (xen) = open source

OpenStorage (zfs) = open source

OpenSolaris = open source

Best of all, I can get everything from one player, and still run Windows and Linux on top of it.