Stack Wars: The Clone Wars
It seems that everyone and their granny is trying to create some sort of stack offering these days. Look at all the brouhaha – HP buying 3Par, Dell buying Compellent, all kinds of partnerships being...
View ArticleEMC finally joining the SPC – plus some advice
Just came to my attention that EMC is finally joining the SPC (Storage Performance Council). As I’ve pointed in their past, their absence from this most standard industry benchmark was puzzling, kudos...
View ArticleEMC conclusively proves that VNX bottlenecks NAS performance
A bit of a controversial title, no? Allow me to elaborate. EMC posted a new SPEC SFS result as part of a marketing stunt (which is working, look at what I’m doing – I’m talking about them, if only to...
View ArticleExamining value for money regarding the SPEC benchmarks
Some of the comments in my previous post asked about $/IOPS and $/TB. Since SPEC doesn’t require prices to be listed, I did my own analysis. The NetApp numbers are simply 4x the existing 6240 result,...
View ArticleNetApp vs EMC usability report: malice, stupidity or both?
Most are familiar with Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. A variation of that is: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by...
View ArticleNetApp posts world-record SPEC SFS2008 NFS benchmark result
Just as NetApp dominated the older version of the SPEC SFS97_R1 NFS benchmark back in May of 2006 (and was unsurpassed in that benchmark with 1 million SFS operations per second), the time has come to...
View ArticleMore EMC VNX caveats
Lately, when competing with VNX, I see EMC using several points to prove they’re superior (or at least not deficient). I’d already written this article a while back, and today I want to explore a few...
View ArticleHow to decipher EMC’s new VNX pre-announcement and look behind the marketing.
It was with interest that I watched some of EMC’s announcements during EMC World. Partly due to competitor awareness, and partly due to being an irrepressible nerd, hoping for something really cool....
View ArticleEMC’s VNX2 forklift: The importance of hardware re-use, slowing down...
It was with interest that I watched the launch of EMC’s VNX refresh. The updated boxes got some long-awaited features, EMC talked a lot about how some pretty severe single-threaded bottlenecks were...
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