Posts by Taube 4 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2015
Storage is a very competitive market in which, if you want to survive, you have to sell product at a profit. Its the only way to build a sustainable business and a principle of our founder and CEO Moshe Yanai. These numbers reflect the fact that we offer real solutions to customer problems at a cost effective price point. Try it, it works.
I applaud the Register for calling out this debate about the all-flash data center replacing disk. It never ceases to amaze me that we continue to debate technology instead of how to solve customer problems. In my opinion, two things drive changes in the market: customer needs and economics. Customers need different media for different types of problems, and they adopt different media at different rates due to the pain of the issue and the cost of the solution. Marketing the disk-free data center is purely a vendor ploy and not in the interests of the customer.
Gareth Taube, VP Marketing at Infinidat
I applaud Enrico's recent article in the Register. Particularly when he states, "they've got to have products capable of serving blocks as well as file or objects, and build integrations (or integrated data services) on top of that." Why should customers be forced to choose? What is needed is one unified storage architecture that cost-effectively supports block, file, and object. Only 4% penetration for all-flash arrays means we are not yet meeting the customers’ needs. Effective unified storage is possible and should be everyone’s focus.
Gareth Taube, VP Marketing Infinidat
As Chris states, there is a definite need for storage systems with large capacity, high reliability and the ability to support multiple data types. The problem is the cost, complexity, and size of these systems truly makes them elephants that cant dance. There are alternatives with high density, continuous availability, single rack footprint, unified protocols, and much lower cost. Designed from the ground up for today's storage needs and flexibility, these modern arrays are continuing to make customers dance with joy.
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