I hope many of you read my recent post: Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees wherein I raised questions around the storage savings guarantee from EMC. The basic question is how can they deliver greater storage savings with fewer technical capabilities and use cases than what is available from NetApp. I believe this is a fair question and was hoping for some information sharing.Now … [Read more...] about Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees – Part II
Disk-Based Arrays
Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees
Way back at VMworld 2008 NetApp announced our 50% storage savings guarantee for virtual data centers. This guarantee basically stated that running VMware on NetApp would reduce one’s storage requirements by half and if we did not, the remaining storage was on us.At the time these storage savings were powered by our block-level data deduplication and thin provisioning of LUNs … [Read more...] about Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees
Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage
Today I wrapped up several weeks of travel which included the Charlotte VMUG conference, NetApp's Foresight engineering event, and a number of customer and technical partner meetings. During these travels a small number of individuals would use the term data deduplication as any technology which reduces the amount of storage capacity required to store a data object (file, LUN, … [Read more...] about Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage
Responding to refutes from EMC regarding VMware integration
In recent weeks many have noticed a change in a number of posts by some at EMC when it comes to comparing the level of storage integration available within VMware vCenter server with arrays and technologies between NetApp and EMC. Such criticism is fair; EMC and NetApp are competitors; however, I’m very disappointed in recent responses that seem to be an attempt at eroding my … [Read more...] about Responding to refutes from EMC regarding VMware integration
EMC Benchmarking Shenanigans
I want to tell you a story about how my evening went the other night. I hope you don't mind a narrative. Monday I received an email from a friend in the VMware community, "Did you see the Register, it's unreal, EMC arrays crushed the SPEC benchmarks!" As you'd assume, this news got my attention. I mean, EMC hasn't published a SPEC benchmark in years. (The last EMC SPEC … [Read more...] about EMC Benchmarking Shenanigans