Posts by BuckRogers 10 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Aug 2014
>> and you get to a company doing that rarest of things: going out of business in a growth market.
Ouch... On point, but still... ouch!
Their tech is irrelevant in all but a sliver of use cases, and in even in those cases, Violin is no longer considered a viable option.
I think HP would take a punt at this if they can get it for under $200M, just for the patents and hardware IP as a stop gap till they have their own NVMe/DSSD type solution.
It could act as a high performance/low latency tier for the 3Par arrays without having to do too much re-engineering.
Otherwise, there will be a fire sale by the middle to end of 2016 on strings, tunning pegs, and chin rests.
Regarding replacement of drives irrespective of cause, see link to article.
"Dell is so confident in this approach, we guarantee all SSD formats for life. As long as the array has a current service plan (ProSupport, or award-winning Copilot), we’ll replace any drives that wear out irrespective of wear level or maximum rated life. "
From Dell article:
http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/dell4enterprise/b/dell4enterprise/archive/2015/07/20/give-your-storage-budget-some-tlc-and-boost-performance-at-the-same-time
Spot on assessment!
Another point of note, is that as the large OEM's acquire the Simplivity's and the Maxta's of the world, it will diminish the value of Nutanix considerably as those OEM sales channels close off to Nutanix.
Unless Nutanix has something earth shattering product pipeline in the form of a new VM ecosystem, it may very likely end up just like Violin.
Managing a stubbing environment is like managing a ticking tbom... it's only a matter of time before something gets messed up and the pointers are no longer accurate which in turn causes the archive to be out of sync... and then booooom... full restores just to clear up that mess.
Just saying... wish there was something better than stubbing.
I liked the ARX solution from F5 but F5 decided to kill it... not the fault of the technology.. they just charged WAY too much for it.
Icahn's long winded letter should have simply said:
Hey Tim,
Buddy ole pal of mine, I see you have a pile of cash over there, and I'm sure you don't need it now or in the future. So how's about you hand over a 100 Beeeeelion to me and my pals. I'll keep banging on pots and pans till you do.
Always,
CI
I forget what they called it... needless to say it was a great conversational piece. Being able to merge unused capacity from the desktops... that is until you realize how often those bloody things keep going tits up.
Maybe they can do this in a VDI architecture so the data is stored on high end enterprise storage.. they can call this new product "Storage Area Network". Now thats innovation!
The shame of all this is that it's all caused by an arse with access to lots of other peoples money thinking he's spotted a limping gazelle only to find out he might have shot an elephant.
Anon cause I know a lot of people that are shaking in their boots right now.
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