* Posts by MikeZG

2 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jul 2016

Woah: NetApp is number two in the all-flash market, says IDC

MikeZG

This is Q1 2016 numbers

It is always hard to compare numbers across vendors that have different fiscal years. The hockey stick always applies to every IT company. Q4 always was and probably always will be the highest revenue number. This being said this was NetApps Q4 and mainly all others Q1. As said it is always hard to compare cause you will never find a common basis but comparing ones best (NTAP) against all others worst doesn't seem to be a fair comparison. Will be interesting to see the Q4 numbers where NetApps Q3 and all others Q4 will be compared. An average or trend line would be best to have.

EMC XtremIO has its quirks but rumours of its death are overblown

MikeZG

XtremIO EOL? Ridiculous.

Disclaimer: I am an EMC - former NetApp - employee!

Like posted in a comment before - have you ever seen a company trashing a market leading technology?

There is overlap - YES. But there is no "one storage to rule them all" and XtremIO was never positioned like that. Every EMC All Flash product has its sweet spot!

What do you think why other vendors have more than one All Flash product?

The ones that tried to make it with one ... Pure Storage, Violin, Cisco, Nimble, I think it doesn't/didn't work out too good.

Obviously this is a competitor campaign during a summer hole to make some noise.

The product roadmap of XtremIO is huge and packed like any other EMC All Flash product! Stay tuned! :-)