Crosswalk is (or should I say, “was”) a company that was bringing a new product to the market called iGrid. It is marketed as the industry’s first scalable NAS solution. The system was to provide NFS and CIFS functionality in a scalable fashion.
If you want to know more, don’t bother. The company went down a couple of days ago. The word is that they have been struggling to bring theirs CIFS functionality to a stable level and the sole owner (did not really go after any VC funding, from what I understand) has pulled the funding.
What is surprising is the reason – CIFS functionality ? I mean – I could name a company or two that might go down ’cause they can’t get their NFS/cluster code right – but CIFS ?
Actaully, CIFS wasn’t the reason, it was the clustered NFS functionality. In the end, the solution couldn’t compete with the plethora of options that are available. As far as funding, from what I’ve heard, they tried to get VC. I think it was a combination of Jack M. being stubborn and un-willing to give up a stake in the company, a complete and total lack of customers and I assume revenue as well, and finally, CTO Raju B. who burned so many bridges with wasting over 100M in VC funding at the failure known as Cereva.
Wonder what’s gonna happen to the h/w and s/w ? show up on ebay and craigslist ? Here here to the solution architecture built on generic components. At least the customers (were there any paid customers ?) can swap the bezels and make it into a linux server :)
Is it me or the crosswalk’s website has been taken down ?