Posts by Meanbean

NetApp needs more than SolidFire: Slip Simplivity into your Xmas stocking

Re: Good news.

Solidfire runs on commodity hardware, Solidfire also has a completely different target market to AFF so I can't see how they would share anything

Pure Storage flashes post-IPO results: Get a load of our... revenues

Re: I'm confused

I get what your saying but their next quarter is Q4 . No way is it a meaningless measurement - maybe in a mature business yes but not in a startup.

NetApp gives its FAS range a 4 MILLION IOPS dose of spit'n'polish

Re: Head HPC Bussiness Development HCL, India

For HPC and ultra low latency high performance check out E-series which has IB

Just how much bang does a FAS8040 box give you for 500,000 bucks

Some valid points, having read through the F400 benchmarks (yes 5 years old) this uses twice as many nodes and twice as many disks, given the cited linear scaling of clustered ONTAP they could go much higher. As mentioned earlier I'd much rather be paying the power, cooling and floor space on the Netapp. On the new benchmarks the 3PAR 10000 does also beat the Netapp 6240 but with 2 more controllers and 4 times as many disks, data-centre's are not cheap to run .

There is plenty of choice in the market place which is great for customers but clients don't buy systems based on benchmarks they buy based on their workload and the truth is that whilst the start ups are without a doubt changing the industry for the better the big boys such as EMC and Netapp continue to execute and evolve. The winner in such a competitive environment will undoubtedly be the client.

Re: Rule of thumb

Wouldn't it be great if all vendors were forced to use the same read / write ratio in these tests and the same block sizes. This information is available for all to see but not everyone understands why this has such an impact on the outputs. Performance also doesn't tell the entire story, I would bet that any CIO worth his salt would also be interested in understanding how a storage platform can almost become a transparent part of their architecture. In my experience most vendors can provide similar performance at a similar price once they get into a competitive situation, the real value comes from the software.

Re: wow

It's unlikely they'd be cheaper especially as some of them are all SSD loaded, don't forget the Netapp price was list which is not near what you'd pay in the real world. This is an impressive spec given that this is purely SAS disks albeit the 512gb Cache card in each controller