Posts by J.T

A good response to EMC bulking up the VNXe and giving it Unisphere. EMC definately fired a shot with it's remote office management suite.

Competition is good.

The real question is is this VPLEX running on VMAX or something else doing the federation.

If it's VPLEX, great. If not, then it leads to a couple points vs other vendors

It appears to have encapsulation, which makes it more appealing that NetApp's need to reformat the virtualized arrays to WAFL (unless you want all WAFL)

Which then leaves how disruptive it is versus HDS. If it's VPLEX levels or equivalent then its just planned outage on the host side (unless you can spoof WWN). HDS requiring no I/O on the storage ports is pretty disruptive unless you have free ports.

I had a much longer post, but then I realized it's not worth it. The problem is the analyst in question seems to need NetApp stock to go up in a rather major way, enough that it's almost getting to the point where someone should examine his bank account for NetApp payouts, or his portfolio for how much NetApp stock he has.

He also released a report saying NetApp will outperform EMC based on not thinking EMC will release as many products as they did last year and NetApp's release of 8.1 coming late in the year.

He's just a financial analyst that's been handed the Storage World, he is showing he doesn't understand it.

"espoused by NetApp a couple of years ago "

NetApp's almost the last one to arrive at the SSD dance (and certainly the last of the big market share owners). In fact, they've been derisive of the idea of SSD enough that they have only started supporting them in the last year. But don't worry, NetApp will use it's PAM cards to up it's performance claims, get sold into a customer, then drop the bomb that PAM cards only accelerate reads (SIGH) and that more disk will be required to actually allow the array to perform.

Violin saying it's now cheaper/GB is interesting, but I don't believe it. It's certainly cheaper/IOP

Heh

J-diskplatter-h Krisher's so heavily in bed with HDS every morning Hu asks him to pass the slippers.

He specifically says the NAS is more scalable (debatable), which is good, because the array side is pretty close to what you could get from most array vendors size/performance wise a generation ago. Well, to be fair, this generation too. None of the vendors want their midrange to embarass their high end do they?

He only talks performance with NetApp, using their 37xx series, ignoring the performance of their 6xxx series. He doesn't even attempt to compare performance to EMC or IBM.

Worse, he also used the phrase: "maintain HDS's position as the industry’s storage subsystem availability leader". Let's go back to the AMS 500 series which absolutely had disruptive upgrades. Should we discuss non-stop SCSI? HDS long has an industry position that they could produce a product with legs that could run, but their industry position on maintenance has been a joke.

Unfortunately for HDS they seem to have lost performance and now are playing catchup. The AMS 2500 was a great improvement over the AMS 500, and this is simply a bump with newer.

But in that bump to newer they missed on one feature your midrange has to have, especially if you want to compete in deals involving VMWare and especially VDI, and that feature is: dedupe on the primary storage. HDS has pretty much lost without this feature.

Can't wait to see some of the more vendor neutral folks get their hands on it. But hey, it's got to start somewhere, and a man who has 42 years of experience yet can only champion one vendor is the go to for HDS.

VSPEX Chris, VSPEX it's VSPEX nice VSPEX that VSPEX you VSPEX found VSPEX an VSPEX EMC VSPEX trademark VSPEX patent. VSPEX

I think you're wrong though. I'm starting to wonder if EMC is trolling you.

About time!

Who knew that in March 2012 a company would be willing to come out and say that SSD is a game changer. Maybe their motto should be "Too big to innovate"

Slightly more serious (and unfortunately only slightly), but maybe HP should take a look at how disjointed their storage portfolio is. They have HDS rebrand (not for long eh), LeftHand, 3Par, and their own. Maybe they should consolidate that into workable brands they can engineer, innovate, and support. Or will it end up like their PC business (do they have one this week, can't be sure)

The most telling bit is that the majority of the storage in HP managed datacenters are.....not HP. They can't even sell it to themselves.

Oracle's database as a service will run on Oracle's hardware, in other words, Exadata, where they will enable Columnar Compression and thus, ensure your database will always have to run on Exadata, no matter if in their cloud or not. Have fun with maintenance costs once you are forced to drink that kool aid every year.

Exadata also uses software raid and no proactive sparing, leading to things like both of your software mirrors going poof at the same time, resulting in data loss. Ask Oracle, it's happened already.

The only bright side to this setup is not having to pay the bills to power and cool their furnaces they call racks.

Note the Oracle cloud only supports Java, meaning it's less a cloud and more just virtualized Oracle. Still can't get Xen working on Exalogic eh Larry? Try using standards based Infiiniband

Here's the thing about NetApp's timetables....they're total crap when it comes to actually developing and producing a product. Look at all the time it took to get all of the storage technology they purchased from Spinnaker into Ontap, and they still blew that by having to keep "7 mode". Additionally, I was working on getting a VTL deduplication solution, NetApp wanted in, promised a solution by June from an inhouse project, delay, delay, delay, two years later oops we need to buy Data Domain.

"We can see that it does now bears a family resemblance to the EMC Lightning PCIe card (right) with a similar large black controller chip, identical connectors on the top edge "

You mean the industry standard pci-express connector? And what seems to be the industry practice of putting the heaviest hottest processor chip in the middle of the card?

Exalogic with more storage and XEN.

Oracle and all flash

Oracle can't afford to go to all flash and keep a serious capacity. Which they need something, I stood behind one and the amount of heat was hilarious.

Brocade Fabric Services

I hope this is entirely grown out of Foundry because having managed a large (10+) DCX fabric Brocade Fabric Services are subpar, lack proper reporting of errors/issues, and is just plain a bolted on crappy set of software.

Um

Was there a point here? This reads like someone trying to use the internet to get their buddy's company sold. How about some actual tech related information. This article was just crap vomited out.

To the comment above

Hey may be a jackass but he's pretty spot on with regards to sale and lack of parity RAID support being a bit of an issue in the enterprise

Cereva IP

The core complaint from Josh is the Cereva IP

EMC Purchases Cereva: August 2002

EMC Debuts DMX: Feb 2003

There's no way that EMC could swallow up IP and put it into their flagship prodcut that fast.