Wrestling with superior technology: French Samurai vs. Barry the Tigon
By: Christophe Bertrand on May 28, 2009
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My last entry generated some interesting comments from both EMC and IBM. Last night I ended up watching a few minutes of a wrestling match (although Martha Stewart’s cookie recipe re-run looked great too), so I figured I’d adopt the theme today for fun. I gave myself and my dance partner stage names for the occasion. Of course, in the end the winners are the spectators. Please enjoy the show!
Round One: Barry the Tigon stuck in a head lock
Well, let’s talk about Barry’s comments on the USP V Platform and the Big Symm (aka “Tigon”; aka: V-miss). While Barry tried to “drive an angle,” it didn’t quite work. A few facts to remember:
- No storage virtualization on V-Max: 12000 HDS controllers out there
- New architecture that’s unproven compared to USP
- There are no performance benchmarks numbers on the V-Max. What do you have to hide? We have the highest independent benchmark (SPC-1 and SPC-2) in class
- FAST = Fully Automated Storage Tiering. Which is SLOW for EMC, as we’ve had this since 2005 and it’s still not available on V-Max
- Catch up to HDS on 3 data center pass-through (we spoke about this previously)
- V-Max Can’t integrate file, object and block services on a single storage platform
- V-Max can’t provide a common BC/DR platform for heterogeneous storage
- And it goes on and on….
I guess we’re “dictating the action”….So, what will we hear next that your guitar goes to 11?
In case you haven’t heard, HDS had a great fiscal year. You can slice it any way you want, but we’ve done great and better than many other vendors. EMC, not so much.
One last thing: If Martha had a recipe for success in storage, it would indeed include HAM!!
And for the other Barry (from IBM): Thank you for your post, I’m sure you’ve seen the comment on your blog.
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the storage anarchist on 28 May 2009 at 6:05 pm
Oooooh, please, oh wise one – explainest thou how Hitachi has “automated” the relocation of data across multiple tiers based on real-time application workloads and demand? As in FULLY AUTOMATED storage tiering…not simply a clean GUI that an enlightened storage admin can use to selectively relocate volumes – 8 at a time.
And TSM *still* requires replication to be suspended while relocating volumes – what does that mean to HAM? Are your banking customers to be out of compliance whilst volumes are MANUALLY relocated on both sides of the cluster?
Surely thou jesteth!
Oh – and a friendly reminder – Symmetrix supported SATA drives AND flash drives more than a YEAR before Hitachi added support for same in the USP-V. Amd your vaunted CTO Hu Yoshida spent almost a YEAR justifying the delay under the shroud of “customers aren’t asking for flash,” “nobody needs flash,” and “it’s not reliable enough.” Yet here you finally have the same STEC EFDs on your price list (albeit in the smaller, higher-cost-per-gigabyte configurations).
And even today your DIRECT sales reps are still telling customers Flash isn’t reliable – even though it’s actually on your price list! Meanwhile EMC customers are taking advantage of EMC’s Unfair First-Mover Competitive Advantage to save money and gain a competitive edge themselves!
Alas, you continue to insult the intelligence of your audience.