InfoStor – HP to buy Opsware for $1.6 billion
The Creekpath software is probably a complete overlap with the AppIQ technology, which HP sells as Storage Essentials. Opsware’s storage technology doesn’t come close to the functionality of Storage Essentials,” says Stephanie Balaouras, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.
Balaouras says Storage Essentials is already considered “best-of-breed” SRM software and, given that HP has already integrated Storage Essentials with other HP management platforms, such as Systems Insight Manager, she would not be surprised if the Creekpath technology is shelved.
Interesting how things turn out! Not long ago, Creekpath were the only people doing something interesting/similar to what we were doing at AppIQ; through a series of land grabs, it seems AppIQ won all the territory that was available for a startup doing enterprise storage management, and left Creekpath in the cold to reinvent themselves and finally be acquired by Opsware for about $10M. It will be interesting to see if we get to team up with any of the Creekpath SRM technologists.