Start-Up's Profile: Interlock Technology

Headquarters:
Cambridge, MA

Born in:
2009

Funding:
Privately funded

Main executives:

Gary Lieberman, CEO: has been an independent storage consultant to many F500 companies and a co-founder of Fabric Data Networks, a start-up specializing in storage router based intelligence; has also held management positions with Cereva and StorageNetworks.
Mike Horgan, CTO: worked at EMC included product management and engineering roles in the Centera organization and serving as a technical contributor and author on the SNIA XAM 1.0 specification; prior to that, was an independent software consultant to several small-to-midsize companies in the Boston area; also spent a year at the NYSE working on trading floor automation systems.
Michael Cavers, VP, sales and alliances: was director of strategic accounts for Tele Atlas North America’s Consumer Wireless team, acquired by TomTom for $4.3 billion.

Number of employees:
5

Technology:
Interlock Technology data assessment and migration services give EMC Centera users SRM-like visibility into their Centera environments and enables heterogeneous movement of data between active archive CAS systems and any standard NAS or SAN device. At the same time, it takes advantage of Centera’s massive parallelism enables migration speeds of up to 6TB a day. The company’s data migration also can unlock a Centera and seed the cloud with its data. The service is delivered via a three-phase process that requires a custom-built appliance that can either be shipped physically or, to meet an individual organization’s security requirements, downloaded as a system of virtual machines to a customer’s existing VMware infrastructure.
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Once the Interlock appliance is installed in a customer data center, it can access and extract Centera data via the XAM API, transforming the C-Clips into a file system layout for use on a SAN/NAS storage target. As a result, organizations can keep their archive data and preserve existing compliance standards while moving it to another vendor’s device. Interlock can move CAS data to any device that presents a file system, whether it be SAN or NAS. If there are compliance requirements, the customer also needs to look at technologies such as NetApp Snaplock or IBM’s IA, or any WORM device the supports archiving. It also make migrated data available to data warehousing and BI offerings and provide a more cost efficient way to meet compliance standards.