Posts by ashminder 5 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Sep 2014
Let's face it, all the storage companies are struggling and that's because the market is reducing in size. Cloud adoption has accelerated and a lot of SMB to mid-market is moving there. Cloud companies need storage themselves but at a lower ingest rate. Also all flash vendors are using data reduction which means people are buying less physical capacity leading to further reduction in revenues.
We are witnessing the next biggest tech market shift
Thats not completely correct. Yes a single SSD or an SSD based array without any intelligence will eventually start to show problems with writes. However the architecture and intelligence on how the flash is managed makes a huge difference on the performance delivered. For example, I have a customer who writes 1PB of data all day every day and performance never drops and the wear counter has hardly moved in the 12 months they have been doing this; this replaced a disk array that couldn't keep up with the writes. I have another customer who's disk array with SSDs couldn't keep up with the level of write transactions, put in Violin and the applications are flying.
(works at Violin Memory)
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