* Posts by achristen

1 publicly visible post • joined 1 Feb 2011

Guru: Oracle's storage strategy is 'screwy'

achristen

Pillar

We are a Pillar customer for three years now...yes, they are not as big as the other ones and we didn't use them in the high-end environment. But the performance and utilization we got out of these boxes using SATA drives was incredible and even better than our high-end environments. And now our vMax is having a hard time to get the same performance I can tell you. Pillar's problem in the past was the code stability, the disruptive code upgrades when installing a major release and enterprise support (at least here in Switzerland) . those are the points where Pillar cannot/could not cope with high end companies/products..

But I don't want to forget to mention the ease of management compared to the vMax.....and the enhanced support for Oracle's ASM (stripesize...).

Even if Oracle's HW support at the moment ist the worst you can get (just pure crap), they are a big player and present everywhere which would help Pillar in the support issue.

So if Oracle could position it right, Pillar could be a better acquisition than you think. And I know people at Pillar...do you?