Reality or Spin?
In a recent blog I talked about our Key Management Strategy. Two comments – one positive and one negative. Thanks for both. Let me deal with the negative. You can read it for yourself but here are a couple of key sentences:
“Do you really expect that Decru will back off OpenKey or RSA will give up years of investment to come make Sun the King of KMS? No more likely than Sun suddenly adopting OpenKey! Until Decru, RSA, NeoScale, Sun, IBM, Vormetric, et al. come to the table and agree to deprecate your proprietary APIs and use a common standard (which doesn't yet exist), this is really just vendor posturing for positive press. It means nothing to us in industry.”
Obviously I wasn't clear or this was a competitor trying to justify their stance (anyone want to vote?). So, let me try again.
- We would love a standard.
- We would love a standard today.
- We would love a standard today that we all agreed to.
- We would love it today not in three years.
- We will do anything we need to do to make it happen.
My only point was that if giving our KMS technology to our partners would move this along I would be happy to do that. Let's think about our customers not about our proprietary solutions.
It's not about the industry – it's about helping customers manage their data explosion better.
Hope that helps! (I doubt it.)
Posted at 07:29AM May 11, 2007 by Nigel Dessau in Sun Storage | Comments[0]