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saiello
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How much of the RAIN technology is taken from Avamar?

When positioning the new VSAN technology for a potential customer, there will be some hesitation over a new technology.  Reading though a good chunk of documentation on the VSAN, how much of the technology is taken from EMC's "RAIN" protection, ala Avamar or Isilon?

As you can imagine it would be much easier to position this technology if it has it's roots in some existing products in the EMC family.

Thank you kindly,

Steven

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vThinkBeyondVM
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RAIN originated in a research project for computing in outer space at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the United States. It shows that RAIN technology is not originated from EMC. EMC has used RAIN in their product and some part of it might be leveraged by VMware. After all EMC is parent company to VMware.


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vickyvision2020 wrote:

RAIN originated in a research project for computing in outer space at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the United States. It shows that RAIN technology is not originated from EMC. EMC has used RAIN in their product and some part of it might be leveraged by VMware. After all EMC is parent company to VMware.

EMC maybe the parent company but VSAN is developed in-house fully from scratch is what I have always been told by the engineering team.

RAIN and RAID are just concepts, who came up with it isn't really relevant as implementations will vary from vendor to vendor.

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vThinkBeyondVM
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Yes I agree with you. Implementation may differ from vendor to vendor.


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