* Posts by FReichart

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NetApp and Fujitsu NFLEX: More details emerge about European HCI tryst

FReichart

Re: Boring...

Boring or not boring - that‘s not the question. It is about the fitting scalability model. If your usage scenario requires no synchronous scalability of storage capacity and compute power, then converged IT is the better choice. If both goes hand in hand then HCI makes a lot of sense. Using hyperconverged for the hype‘s sake mabe the reason why it‘s called HYPErconverged. Ha,ha !

Being boringly reliable is also not a bad thing.

Yours truly, Frank from Fujitsu

Dell's XtremIO has a new reseller in Japan – its all-flash rival Fujitsu

FReichart

Fujitsu competes with Dell EMC's XtrmeIO

In the Japanese market, Fujitsu provides end to end services for large customers including the purchase of third party products like XtremeIO – it is strictly for this market only due to the specific nature of the corporate customer business.

Fujitsu has its own full line-up of ETERNUS storage systems which compete with those from Dell-EMC. In fact, we are seeing very favorable response to the recently-launched ETERNUS AF250 and AF650, with a growing number of customers agreeing that they are a perfect alternative to Dell-EMC’s XtremIO and Unity products. You can expect more all-flash products from Fujitsu later this year offering extreme I/O scalability.

Frank Reichart

Sen. Dir. Product Marketing Storage

Fujitsu

Fresh from 1,800 job cuts, Fujitsu boasts of spinning rust-killing flashy boxen

FReichart

Here a small factual correction. The new ETERNUS AF650 all flash-array will not replace the existing ETERNUS DX600 storage system. The ETERNUS DX600 can host SSDs and it is quite often sold as SSDs only configuration, but it can also operate hard disks - so the DX600 is not an all-flash array, it is a so called "hybrid" storage system. As it is most likely that the transiton from hybrid storage systems to all-flash arrays will take several years, the DX600 will stay actively in Fujitsu's portfolio and Fujitsu will invest in product enhancements. In a nutshell: the ETERNUS AF650 is an addtion to the portfolio, not a replacement.

Frank Reichart

Sen. Director Product Marketing Storage at Fujitsu

Fujitsu fleshes out Ceph hyperscale CD10000 with cost-saving tweaks

FReichart

Re: But its still CEPH

Dear Anonymous,

Fujitsu's successful storage business in Japan was globalized in 2010 and quickly grew in EMEA where we have a large base of satisfied customers. We can also demonstrate good reference cases in Asia Pacific and in the US. We clearly see a build-up of software-defined storage implementations in the hyper-scale storage segment and Ceph is the leading technology in this area. At the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver around 40% of OpenStack users rated Ceph as their preferred storage technology. This is why we decided to offer a complete storage solution based on Ceph helping early adopters to use the new storage paradigm in a much more easy way and with full support. Out of this market understanding we added this new storage category to our "classical" portfolio of ETERNUS RAID systems, backup appliances, flash arrays and tape libraries allowing us to serve various storage needs. Non-anonymously, Frank Reichart, Sen. Dir. Product Marketing Storage, Fujitsu

Fujitsu's ETERNUS CD10000: Better Ceph than sorry?

FReichart

Ceph is very reliable for Block and Object Storage

The ETERNUS CD10000 is desigend and quality assured for the usage as a hyper-scale storage system - it is not a generic IT platform. This is why Fujitsu is intentionally restrictive in allowing to run applications on a ETERNUS CD10000. The underlying operating system is of no significance as the system is sold as a storage appliance. Traditional RAID Storage Systems have also specialised operating systems.

Nobody would want to compromise the service level of a storage system by adding additional workloads at random. The fact that software-defined storage platforms run on x86 servers may create a temptation to mix storage and business application workloads on one platform but it is strongly recommended not to do so. Fujitsu is also aware that the file cababilities of Ceph are still limited. Therfore the system is realesed for block and object store in it's first relase. File will be suppoerted at a later point in time.

This is a big advantage of a packacked solution as only functions are released which enterprise users can rely on.

Frank Reichart

Sen. Product Marketing Director Storage, Fujitsu