MAD Blog: Chuck, there you go again.

Today is a fun day.

Chuck Hollis has taken me to task for not understanding what real fiber channel is. And he claims that because he's been selling FC for longer, we should trust him.

Fine, I don't know what real fiber channel is and, frankly, I don't care.

But guess what, I've been at a company selling unified storage for a lot longer than EMC has.

So appealing to my seniority, much like Chuck appeals to his seniority in the FC space, the  NX4 is not real unified storage. The value proposition of the NX4 is not that of unified storage, no matter how hard he and EMC wishes it was.

Comments

[Nick Triantos]

Following Chuck's flawed reasoning, since NetApp is "emulating" SAN (have no clue what that means but I suspect he's refering to the vdisks we create), then VMware's approach is flawed because these vmdks are not real disks...they are...emulated and so is Microsoft's and Citrix's.

Geeeeeeez