Aperi - nice idea, but will it fly?
Written on November 3, 2005 by Conor O'Neill
Jon William Toigo over at Byte & Switch has a great article on Aperi and the history of SRM in general. His analysis of industry reaction to the Aperi announcement by IBM is particularly incisive.
Whether IBM will succeed (with the help of the OpenSource community) or not is obviously the great unknown. In any other sector the chances would be good but so many initiatives in this area have started with grand hopes and ended up as yet another niche product optimised for a small set of specific hardware. We’ll obviously know more when it moves from the realm of vapourware and we can start looking at the architecture of system.
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Watching how the storage industry splinters itself with standards initiatives that end up being completely self serving for only the biggest storage vendors that can afford to play is unfortunate. I am usually an optimist when it comes to smart people getting together to “do the right thing”, but in this case, I think that Aperi will only confuse and dilute any sort of storage management initiative. SMI-S being the biggest victim.
You can check out more of my opinion on “this topic on my “blog.
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Joe
Thanks for referencing my piece on Byte & Switch. FYI, a new open source initiative around storage and data management has just been launched at http://www.storagerevolution.com. This time, it’s a grassroots effort driven by consumers rather than vendors. It will conduct all of its business “in the sunshine” and is dependent upon consumers to provide specifications and requirements. Have a read!
That is one ambitious and impressive plan on your site. We’ll be keeping a very close eye on developments.
Do you intend to be fully cross-platform via Mono or does .NET mean Windows-only in this case?
Management of User requirements will be critical to the success of your initiative. And the hardest part of that is differentiating between needs and wish-lists. We have seen too many technically awesome software products get no market traction because they failed to address genuine user needs.