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Has NetApp sold more flash than any other enterprise disk vendor?

NetApp has been selling our custom cache boards with flash chips for a while now. We have sold over 3PB of usable cache this way.

The question was raised in public forums such as Twitter – someone mentioned that this figure may be more usable Solid State storage than all other enterprise disk vendors have sold combined (whether it’s used for caching or normal storage – I know we have greatly outsold anyone else that does it for caching alone 🙂 ).

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Vendor FUD-slinging: at what point should legal action be taken? And who do you believe as a customer?

I’m all for a good fight, but in the storage industry it seems that all too many creative liberties are taken when competing.

Let’s assume, for a moment, that we’re talking about the car industry instead. I like cars, and I love car analogies. So we’ll use that, and it illustrates the absurdity really well.

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Pillar claiming their RAID5 is more reliable than RAID6? Wizardry or fiction?

Competing against Pillar at an account. One of the things they said: That their RAID5 is superior in reliability to RAID6. I wanted to put this on the public domain and, if true, invite Pillar engineers to comment here and explain how it works for all to see. If untrue, again I invite the Pillar engineers to comment and explain why it’s untrue.

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What if you could dramatically improve your application testing times? What would happen to your productivity and to the company’s bottom line?

So, let’s say the DBA (or insert some other discipline) wants to do some testing for a new product (known to happen occasionally) – and the way he would really like to test is to create 20 test cases, which requires 20 copies of the main database. He would then automate the test and therefore get results very quickly.

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