Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
<edit: updated with the changes in the SPC-1 price/performance lineup as of 3/27/2015, fixed some typos>
I’m happy to announce that today we announced the new, third-gen EF560 all-flash array, and also posted SPC-1 results showing the impressive performance it is capable of in this extremely difficult benchmark.
Ah, nothing to bring joy to the holidays like a bit of good old-fashioned sales craziness.
Recently we started seeing weird performance “guarantees” by some storage vendors, who seem will try anything for a sale.
Probably by people that haven’t read this.
It goes a bit like this:
This will be another FUD-busting post in the two-part series (first part here).
It’s interesting how some competitors, in their quest to beat us at any cost, set aside all common sense.
Recently, an Oracle blogger attempted to understand a document NetApp originally wrote in the 90’s (and which we haven’t really updated since, which is admittedly our bad) that explains how WAFL, the block layout engine of Data ONTAP (the storage OS on the FAS platform) works at a high level.
Continue reading “When competitors try too hard and miss the point – part two”
(edit: fixed the images)
After a long hiatus, we return to our regularly scheduled programming with a 2-part series that will address some wild claims Oracle has been making recently.
I’m pleased to introduce Jeffrey Steiner, ex-Oracle employee and all-around DB performance wizard. He helps some of our largest customers with designing high performance solutions for Oracle DBs:
Continue reading “When competitors try too hard and miss the point”
It was with interest that I watched some of EMC’s announcements during EMC World. Partly due to competitor awareness, and partly due to being an irrepressible nerd, hoping for something really cool.
BTW: Thanks to Mark Kulacz for assisting with the proof points. Mark, as much as it pains me to admit so, is quite possibly an even bigger nerd than I am.
So… EMC did deliver something. A demo of the possible successor to VNX (VNX2?), unavailable as of this writing (indeed, a lot of fuss was made about it being lab only etc).
Continue reading “How to decipher EMC’s new VNX pre-announcement and look behind the marketing.”