CIO Insight recently gave some nice press coverage to a company I’ve been following for a while now, RevStor.In a nutshell the RevStor product SANware builds a niftly little data grid seamlessly, with a very easy turn-key install, to provide the benefits of a Storage Area Network. The target market is small to medium size businesses that need a data replication solution for distribution and redundancy.I’ve covered RevStor in this blog and in the Globus Consortium Journal and it is nice to see them getting more press play. It is no secret that the mass uptake of grid computing in enterprise is not where many of us would like it to be, but that may be due to the “boil the ocean” goals that were initially set. Many tried to overlay the model that has worked in research and academic circles of large wide scale grids like the TeraGrid. The fact is that enterprise is too cautious for an “all in” approach and really needs to start smaller and work towards the larger enterprise grids. This is certainly not an original observation and indeed there are companies using that observation in product development and business strategy.I think we need to give credit to the smaller companies like RevStor. They have selected a tighter niche in which to ply the technology of grid. Success at this more focused level will no doubt bubble up and create that ground swell of interest that we need at the larger enterprise levels. Technology Industry