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Distant data at arm''s reach: while UCSD''s Supercomputer Center tackles data storage challenge, an old friend takes the product to market.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 29-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 933 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Distant data at arm''s reach: while UCSD''s Supercomputer Center tackles data storage challenge, an old friend takes the product to market.(Special Report: Web/Internet)(University of California San Diego partners with General Atomics)

Article Excerpt
A company specializing in exotic technology has carved out a new division to bring some California-bred software to the commercial market.

General Atomics announced last week that UC San Diego had granted it an exclusive license to market a line of software to manage huge, dispersed silos full of data.

GA will take the software to market through a new, 12-person division called Nirvana.

The staff at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, on the UCSD campus, has been working on the software since 1995, using an estimated $20 million in federal grants. General Atomics has put $5 million more into the effort to commercialize it.

Both figures come from Constantin Scheder, director of General Atomics' Nirvana Division.

The software is called SRB. That's short for Storage Resource Broker.

SRB can link a variety of geographically distant databases--even databases built...

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