Incipient
Storage Virtualization & Data Migration Software
Quotes from Customers, Alliances, Analysts
“Incipient is a pioneer in the field of network storage virtualization and has aligned its sales and marketing efforts on the financial services sector, a segment that we believe stands to extract great business value from it.”
—Tony Asaro, Sr. Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
“Cisco is pleased to work with storage solution providers to offer best-in-class solutions for our customers. The Incipient solution enables Cisco storage networking customers to seamlessly migrate data to 3PAR Utility Storage and benefit from cost-efficient data migration and replication.”
— Ed Chapman, vice president of product management, Data Center and Switching Business Unit, Cisco
“Incipient iNSP has some great tools in their product, data migration, storage pooling, provisioning, point-in-time copy, and so on. But it is the first product that looks like it has staying power and can run right in the heart of my fabric. This product gives us some great functionality as a cross platform storage pool virtualization product, letting us combine, move, and reconfigure storage flexibly, regardless of platform, disk, storage chassis, or just about any other factor. It has run practically bullet proof for us.”
— Jeff Boles, IT manager for City of Mesa, AZ
“Incipient’s unique, network-based software approach to storage virtualization is exactly what enterprise customers’ desire as they look to embrace ILM strategies and reduce complexities in their environment.”
—Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting
“iNSP automates and delivers storage services consistently across the SAN – making time consuming and error prone tasks such as data migration and storage provisioning, simple and strategic. It is only a matter of time until service oriented architectures within IT are commonplace.”
— Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
“Incipient allows us, behind the scenes and in real time, to migrate data over to another array. We can get all the storage off Array A, do maintenance, power it down, do firmware, test it and make sure it’s good, all before we start moving the systems back to it. And the production applications aren’t affected. It’s great.”
— Bart McDonough, director of systems architecture at a hedge fund in Stamford, CT
“We are very pleased to have the Incipient Network Storage Platform software as one of the intelligent fabric applications that can be hosted on our market-leading Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches,” We look forward to continuing our long-standing relationship with Incipient as it introduces its solution to the marketplace.”
— Buck Gee, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s storage business unit
“Solutions like Incipient’s that use storage virtualization to enable easy migration and replication of data across tiers of heterogeneous storage will play a key role in helping companies deal with growing data and information management challenges.”
— Richard Villars, vice president of Storage Systems research at IDC
“Incipient is at the forefront with its intelligent storage platform and related partnerships and is well-positioned to assume market leadership.”
— Michael Leidesdorff, principal, QuestMark Partners
“Incipient’s solution offering is an important milestone in helping to bring valuable fabric-based storage applications to market. Fabric applications such as Incipient’s storage management solutions have the potential to significantly reduce the operational cost and complexity of managing storage environments.”
—Dave Stevens, Brocade CTO of Transport Services
“40% of early adopters of intelligent storage networks say ‘you cannot have an effective ILM solution without intelligent storage networks’. Additionally, 45% of the same group say ‘you cannot have an effective tiered storage architecture without intelligent storage networks.’”
—Enterprise Strategy Group, Report on “Future of Network-Based Storage
“Incipient will be the first and only company to make generally available a split-path storage virtualisation software solution that is completely embedded on industry standard director-class intelligent Fibre Channel (FC) switches, which requires no additional hardware or software to operate, when compared with competing solutions on the market today. Furthermore, Incipient is the first and only company to have developed split-path storage virtualisation software from the ground up, specifically for the intelligent FC switch. Until now, no other storage virtualisation software solution had been architected from the ground up specifically for the intelligent FC switch.”
— Diana Shepstone, Editor, SNS Europe
“One of the most important releases in recent storage news": iNSP (Incipient Network Storage Platform). “iNSP is the first (and for now only) storage virtualization software that resides entirely inside an intelligent switch module. That’s an architectural difference from competing products that run on arrays or ancillary appliances.” Benefits include quicker data migration, and “the ability to automate recurring storage provisioning tasks with templates that classify storage according to applications’ demands.”
— Bart McDonough, director of systems architecture at a hedge fund in Stamford, CT
“Incipient may be late for the virtualization hype — but just in time for the “real market for network- and fabric-based applications to support data migration and other must-have functionality.”
— Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO
“Switch-based storage virtualisation solutions are only just emerging and Incipient is focused on being a leader in this market. Incipient, with its split-path architecture, leverages the Cisco MDS switch and is actually the first software-based storage virtualization solution that runs natively on this platform. This is an important milestone that has been desired and anticipated by customers for many years.”
—Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
“Intelligent FC switch platforms combined with iNSP are the ideal solution for mid-sized to large enterprise class IT environments that are undergoing rapid information growth and infrastructure expansion. The iNSP software suite supports all the major OEM storage vendors including EMC, HP, HDS and IBM.”
—— Diana Shepstone, Editor, SNS Europe
“Incipient demonstrated iNSP could provide us with a toolset, which will allow us to avoid storage vendor lock-in and gain the ability to mix and match heterogeneous storage components. This is extremely important as we expect our storage environment to grow 65 percent annually and this storage environment flexibility will allow us to prepare for and respond to our business requirements for the long term. iNSP will help us scale effectively while maintaining superior performance.”
— Jeff Boles, IT manager for City of Mesa, AZ