Flash Du Jour
and just like that all the NetApp claims about flash are about to change. Lets remember a few though because they are fun:
1) What? Flash? It's just a media. No bid deal. Remember when we went from SAS to SATA? It's the same thing. Don't worry about it.
2) Listen; all you need to do is stick some SSDs into a FAS system and it'll still be much faster than you'll even need
3) We've incorporated "future" flash ray innovations to All FAS Flash but we're not going to tell exactly which ones so we don't spoil the surprise.
4) All Flash FAS innovations (code for: we made ONTAP get out of its own way a little bit)
4) 3.8 TB 3D-NAND SSD. ONTAP can use them. Other competitors can't because they have fixed capacity/memory ratios and metadata is a problem for them. SolidFire anyone? 4k anyone?
5) Look how fast the EF is
6) 3X Guarantee with AFF vs traditional arrays using all disk; We get to review how much disk...just in case there's a boatload of wide stripped 15k SAS and we end up looking like Steve Harvey
7) Look how fast the EF is
8) Look All FAS Flash inline deduplication. What? Ummm, what? no we recommend it for VDI only
9) Flash Ray? What Flash Ray? Innovations? All Flash FAS? What are you talking about?
10) NetApp announces the acquisition of SolidFire
Clearly someone has had ENOUGH
Biting the hand that feeds IT
