Posts by the-sarge

Cisco: Be Bold!

Cisco should outbid HPE just like EMC did when they swooped in and outbid NetApp for Data Domain. That was bold...and turned out to be an awfully smart move by EMC. I gotta give them credit for that.

Re: Nimble are only imitating what Zadara Storage has delivered for the last 6 years

My hand is up. I do not work for a vendor.

Re: Nimble are only imitating what Zadara Storage has delivered for the last 6 years

My hand is up. I don't work for a vendor.

Re: AWS EBS has a 0.2% AFR - according to Amazon!

You're not "rigging up a (very slow) pipe to on-prem kit." You're connecting to flash storage in an adjacent datacenter over a high-speed, low-latency pipe. Having your data hosted in a service like this allows precisely the opposite of locking you in...it allows mobility of your data and workloads between public clouds (and yes, on-prem private cloud if you also want that). More flexibility, not less.

*If you're talking about running MSSQL in an iSCSI volume using an object gateway like Nasuni or SoftNAS or some other hack solution like that...you'd be kicked out of an enterprise shop just for vocalizing that you thought the idea might have some merit. :) Possible? Yes. Works? Well...depends on what you mean by "works." :) Those vendors will readily admit that they would never recommend that anybody do that. I've spoken with those two vendors in particular in the past couple of weeks where this question came up.

Re: Soo let me get this right

Buddy...they didn't build their own compute cloud. They built a Storage-as-a-Service "cloud." They are putting their storage in what are essentially adjacent data centers to AWS and Azure data centers. There are very high-speed low-latency links between the data centers. You run compute on AWS or Azure, but you have those instances set up to use the block volumes from Nimble instead of EBS volumes, for instance. Tons of benefits. Other storage companies already do it successfully. Nimble has some benefits that will differentiate them from those those guys. They aren't competing with anything that Amazon or Microsoft is taking especially seriously (block storage). It's a symbiotic relationship...good for both parties.