* Posts by GoFarley

2 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Aug 2015

StorPool CEO: 'We do not need another storage product'

GoFarley

Re: Lock in

Many features, such as sharding data across systems and deduping data create lockin by their nature. Oh - and good luck avoiding lockin with encryption. Even if a vendor wanted to completely avoid lockin, they couldn't - unless they had the first truly open storage software platform (that nobody else would have)

NetApp sees IBM/Cisco VersaStack as 'huge' threat to FlexPod

GoFarley
Megaphone

Evangelist, Tegile

Somebody here has strange ideas about journalism. Journalism succeeds by publishing stories that people want to read, and this one has apparently succeeded. Ha! The real joke is the concept of competitive marketing at Netapp. I work for Tegile and am delighted to see Netapp talking trash about us.