Given everything that’s going on between us and EMC lately, this has to be the most unfortunately timed corporate typo in quite a while. OTOH - if you take EMC claims at face value, then this kinda proves the point that our FAS & V-Series primary dedupe is superior.
Kudos to the good doctor for catching this!
FOX News / Bill O'Reilly fans will instantly recognize this topical metaphor for the sometimes polarized political landscape in America these days.
While it may seem odd to outside Information Technology observers, for those of us in the storage industry this is also amounting to a central theme in the Data Domain acquisition saga between NetApp and EMC.
If you’re involved in the storage industry, you may be wondering which is more newsworthy of late. Miss California, Bruno, or the NetApp-EMC tussle over Data Domain?
Regarding the latter, one of the most abused aspects of the discussion concerns NetApp’s track record regarding corporate acquisitions. Biased rhetoric about selective transactions hardly paints a clear or accurate picture. For proper perspective, it’s important to understand how NetApp’s growth plans drive our resulting acquisition strategy.
NetApp’s proposed acquisition of Data Domain a few weeks ago has created a storm flurry of activity by our competitors – as well as on various industry, financial and vendor web sites. Much like a hurricane, the further you are from the center of the storm, the more damage you will suffer. Unless of course you are merely an outside observer completely beyond the reach or consequences of the storm.
Notably, those organizations just outside the eye of this storm run a significant risk of injuries and casualties.
Continue reading "It's always calmest … in the eye of the storm" »
It’s how you finish of course! NetApp is expected to announce our Q4 earnings after the NASDAQ market closes tomorrow May 20th, closing out our fiscal year 2009.
With the worst of the recession occurring smack dab in the middle of our FY09, this has been both a challenging and educational year for us. As a result, during FY10 the NetApp Office of the CTO predicts customer purchasing trends will begin to shift en masse from products to Cloud Services, where Storage Efficiency will determine Cloud Storage Providers’ ultimate success or failure!
Among other accomplishments, NetApp executives will update the financial analysts on our dedupe market leadership and what we expect during the next 11 months throughout our FY10.
This promises to be a very special call, so I highly recommend all those interested in NetApp for whatever purpose - listen in!
Wither the DMX moniker? With all his legal troubles, I guess the name association was getting a bit troublesome :)
Without too much digging tonight, I stumbled upon an over-view of EMC’s over-hyped “Over-take the Future” product announcement set for tomorrow. Seems like FT didn’t quite plug all their leaks of the EMC press embargo.
3Par’s Deep Throat and Rickroller extraordinaire Marc Farley has a point that EMC seems to be plagiarizing the InServ spec sheet from a product perspective. Seems like Compellent will soon be releasing a press release quoting their CEO with the same opinion. But that box-oriented viewpoint is far too narrow.
Continue reading "Overtake this! Symmetrix V-Max? Frames are so 90’s" »
If you’re an “IT storage person”, next week is gonna be a fun storage geekfest at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando. Whether you’re into Dedupe, FCoE, Multi-Vendor Storage Array Interoperability, Flash or Storage Standards in general, NetApp will be omnipresent at this year’s Spring Storage Networking World show organized by SNIA & ComputerWorld.
Cloud & Virtualization will be two of the dominant themes at the show, but the theme I’m most excited about is of course Solid State Storage.
Mainstream news networks, financial news networks, professional journalism websites and even blogs have all tried and failed to accomplish what Jon Stewart and his staff on The Daily Show accomplished in one remarkably brilliant week of late-night TV intellectual vigilantism. Ironically this accomplishment parallels the events of the Exposed blog about a month ago.
Set the Trap
For Stewart, Step One was to call out Wall St for their blatant hypocrisy. They were hijacking the US government (both Bush’s & Obama’s) to the tune of over trillion dollars in bailouts, while at the same time complaining about a far more modest (especially per capita) homeowner bailout package by the Obama administration.
NetApp has built our business on leading via innovation, instead of following conventional wisdom. In our earliest days, we bypassed file-serving via a general-purpose OS in favor of an efficient stripped down micro-kernel which delivers far more performance and efficiency, while offering more stability without the extra code bloat. We chose native kernel-mode protocol implementations for NFS and CIFS instead of user-mode protocol emulation. That enabled maximum performance and even true multi-protocol locking on the same file if necessary.
Other even more profound innovations feature the industry’s only RAID without compromise (enabling maximum performance, availability and efficiency in the same configuration), giving life to low-cost ATA technology in enterprise settings. We stood out with native Thin functionality (Provisioning / Cloning / Replication) implemented at the core of our I/O engine to elegantly complement our still-exclusive dedupe capabilities on ALL tiers of storage, featuring primary instead of merely backup and archive.
Deep application integration and scalable policy-based management helps you actually apply this storage innovation to your most common enterprise apps. Modular and consistent controller architectures with in-place upgrades make these sometimes exotic features all the more approachable to every IT department.
The advent of Solid State announcements among Enterprise Storage vendors over the past year offered NetApp once again an opportunity to bypass conventional wisdom. So we chose to redefine the concept of Unified Storage which NetApp coined years ago with our first combined SAN/NAS/iSCSI array.
Welcome to NetApp Unified Storage 2.0 - doing Solid State Storage – our way.
