HP is buying IBRIX and its parallelised, scale-out file-serving software for an undisclosed amount. Privately-held IBRIX is a competitor in the clustered NAS space alongside Exanet, Isilon, NetApp, with ONTAP GX, and Panasas. The idea was to speed I/O between servers and high-capacity storage with a single namespace parallel file system parallelising the file I/O between storage devices and servers used in cluster, grid, and enterprise computing.
HP Hoovers up IBRIX
July 17, 2009