[san-tech][02198] "NetApp to Acquire Bycast Inc."

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:24:24 +0900
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NetAppが object storage開発会社の Bycast Inc.の買収を発表しました：
Bycast社は 10年以上前に設立され 250ほどの顧客を獲得しているそうです。

"NetApp to Acquire Bycast Inc.", April 7, 2010
  http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news-rel-20100407-bycast.html
  http://www.bycast.com/news_events/files/press_releases/2010/Bycast_press-release_4-6-10_FINAL2.pdf

  "Bycast is a leading developer of object-based storage software
   designed to manage petabyte-scale, globally distributed repositories
   of images, video, and records for enterprises and service providers."

Bycast Inc.
  http://www.bycast.com/index.asp
※現在は
NetApp StorageGRID
  http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-software/storagegrid/
にリダイレクト

Vanishing Into the Infrastructure
David Slik, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Architectの Blog
  http://intotheinfrastructure.blogspot.com/

"NetApp buys small, large storage specialist", 8th April 2010
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/08/netapp_bycast/

  "IBM offers StorageGRID  in its Grid Medical Archive product and
    has done so since 2005. HP has a similar Medical Archive product.
   Both will now become NetApp OEMs."

"IBM polishes grid for healthcare providers", 17th May 2007
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/17/ibm_updates_gmas_grid_system/

関連記事
"NetApp peeking at object interfaces", 24th August 2009
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/24/netapp_object_interfaces/

  "NetApp is going to add a native object interface to its storage
   arrays, probably before the middle of next year."

"NetApp 3.0", 23rd August 2009, Val Bercovici
  http://blogs.netapp.com/exposed/2009/08/netapp-30.html