I don't get paid by the word for what I write, and you probably don't either. Here's a rewarding way to change all that; pick up your pen and in 500 words or so you could be getting the equivalent of $2000 a word.
Yes, it's back; NetApp's $1 million dollar virtualization challenge. (You might remember the original challenge, and what we saw as a need to call out the exceptional advantages of NetApp's guarantee.)
And we're not looking for a Shakespeare.
In no fewer than 500 words, describe your current storage infrastructure and how it supports your VMware environment. Please include as many details as possible to differentiate your submission, such as: number of servers and VMs deployed, type of current storage connected to your virtual servers, your desired business metrics, ROI and timeframe for a new storage deployment in your virtualized environment.
My colleague Vaughn Stewart has made a couple of observations on his latest blog about the program, which is based on our virtualization guarantee. Vaughn makes a point about RAID-10 vs RAID-DP in the guarantee;
As many of you may know, this program has never been without its share of criticism by other storage vendors. In my opinion, I believe this criticism has been fair as a component of the guarantee program compares RAID-10 and RAID-DP on the merits of storage efficiency. While both technologies are near equals in terms of performance and data protection it is unfair to compare the 50% utilization of RAID-10 to the 87.5% provided by RAID-DP
I beg to differ (and did so in my original blog). I believe it's valid to compare the two, because the alternative -- RAID-5 -- just isn't up to the job of protecting your data.
I said back then; so why not compare to RAID-6? The truth is, we could and would, but we still don’t find our competition selling it. It’s there on the spec sheet as a solution from some vendors – not all have the capability -- but it’s rarely put forward as a viable solution.
And that's the extent of our disagreement. The rest of his blog is spot on; and with public disclosure of the results, I too think we'll see high rates of savings without including RAID-DP.
Get scribbling!
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