Live by the Blog, die by the Blog

As expected, Chuck wasted no time in issuing the predictable response to our SPC announcement from yesterday.  We knew he would regurgitate the tired old defense of SPC not being a relevant benchmark, etc...

So what surprised us?

Well it seems as if Chuck forgot his own open SPC invitation to the storage community.  So let me quote the most interesting section and save you a trip over there:

"... We've never done an SPC test, and probably will never do one.  Anyone is free, however, to download the SPC code, lash it up to their CLARiiON, and have at it."

Perhaps he never expected anyone to make the investment in setting up a CLARiiON to pass the rigorous SPC audit process?  Yes, that same audit process that:

1. forces you to strictly follow all performance best-practices, and
2. has now been passed by nearly every storage vendor that matters ... except EMC themselves.

As per my prior post on this topic yesterday, NetApp has over a decade of fully transparent and sensible benchmark configurations published for anyone to review.  More recently, the VeriTest and SPC reports consistently prove how our allegedly "architecturally inferior" FAS arrays clearly outperform their CLARiiON counterparts.  That mounting volume of credible evidence certainly presents challenges for those in the industry who still attempt to dismiss NetApp's performance in real-world production customer deployments.

What else surprised us?

It seems as if in his haste for a pithy response, Chuck also forgot to read the actual press release itself.  He claims he'd like to us to focus on more customer value.  So I guess:

• Delivering 23% better performance,
• At a lower price,
• With 15 less drives,
• Offering 68% higher capacity utilization,
• Protecting against all possible double-disk failure scenarios,
• Capturing consistent online recovery points without sacrificing performance,
• All while still enabling rich functionality such as efficient & space-saving Thin Provisioning

... doesn't deliver value to customers?  Hmmm.  With that type of logic at EMC, maybe VMware wasn't the reason EMC stock was down over 5% yesterday.

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