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R.I.P. StorageX... Good Thing Customers Can Transition to AutoVirt Easily
Posted by on Wed, Nov 11, 2009 @ 11:16 AM

 

Back in May, Brocade quietly announced that it was terminating its whole StorageX file management product line. The official StorageX End-Of-Life (EOL) letter to its customers is certainly worth reading. I guess the company has to focus on its core business – after all, you’ve probably seen the reports that Brocade has been shopping itself around. 
StorageX was a file virtualization product much like AutoVirt 3.0. There were a bunch of customers using it – and now it is dead. In fact, the damage extends beyond just Brocade StorageX… there are a bunch of impacted products from both Brocade and its resellers:
Brocade StorageX
Brocade File Lifecycle Manager (FLM)
Brocade MyView
Brocade File Management Engine (FME)
NetApp Virtual File Manager (VFM) product suite
IBM StorageX
Hitachi StorageX
Now if you are a StorageX customer, here’s the crazy part. You won’t be getting any new product enhancements – no features, no upgrades, no new platform support. And in exchange, you have to pay 10% more per year, each year, to maintain your support contract! Thank you sir, may I have another?
We’ve been getting so many calls from StorageX customers looking for a replacement, that we decided to create a StorageX Swap-out Program to make it easy for people to transition off their unsupported platform onto something that is actually easier to use, easier to manage, and even more functional.
Here are the details of the program:
A 50% discount off perpetual software licenses of AutoVirt
One year of AutoVirt support at no cost
StorageX import functionality that automatically recreates the entire global namespace with just a couple of clicks – for an incredibly simple transition process
Want to learn more about the program? Find more details on our StorageX Swap-out Program page.

Back in May, Brocade quietly announced that it was terminating its whole StorageX file management product line. The official StorageX End-Of-Life (EOL) letter to its customers is certainly worth reading. I guess the company has to focus on its core business – after all, you’ve probably seen the reports that Brocade has been shopping itself around. 

StorageX was a file virtualization product much like AutoVirt 3.0. There were a bunch of customers using it – and now it is dead. In fact, the damage extends beyond just Brocade StorageX… there are a bunch of impacted products from both Brocade and its resellers:

 

  • Brocade StorageX
  • Brocade File Lifecycle Manager (FLM)
  • Brocade MyView
  • Brocade File Management Engine (FME)
  • NetApp Virtual File Manager (VFM) product suite
  • IBM StorageX
  • Hitachi StorageX

 

Now if you are a StorageX customer, here’s the crazy part. You won’t be getting any new product enhancements – no features, no upgrades, no new platform support. And in exchange, you have to pay 10% more per year, each year, to maintain your support contract! Thank you sir, may I have another?

We’ve been getting so many calls from StorageX and NetApp VFM customers looking for a replacement, that we decided to create a StorageX Swap-out Program to make it easy for people to transition off their unsupported platform onto something that is actually easier to use, easier to manage, and even more functional.

Here are the details of the program:

 

  • A 50% discount off perpetual software licenses of AutoVirt
  • One year of AutoVirt support at no cost
  • StorageX import functionality that automatically recreates the entire global namespace with just a couple of clicks – for an incredibly simple transition process

 

Want to learn more about the program? Find more details on our StorageX Swap-out Program page.

 

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