Smoke & Mirrors With No Substance
EMC is their worst own enemy. This is NOT a major upgrade. Adding faster commodity processors, changing 10% of the 20 million lines of code (no exaggeration) to make it multi-core aware, and changing the name of the OS does nothing to address the fundamental flaw of the architecture. It is still a spindle-bound architecture and requires gobs of hardware/disk drives to provide sustained IOPS/throughput. It is also still a complex science experiment. At best, they've bought themselves a couple years so they can finally figure out how to truly leverage the new toys they've acquired - Isilon, Data Domain, XtremeIO, etc. Make no mistake, they are first and foremost a marketing machine.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
