I hear glowing words on the new NVMe array PowerMAX which ascends from VMAX . It is a kick-a-- machine which will utterly destroy Pure and Infinidat aspirations toward the high end, 7-sigma storage. Opinions?
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Had a bit too much of the EMC koolaide did we? Nothing new or innovative about Powermax, just as Unity is another rehash of the tired old CX product acquired from DG oh so long ago, Powermax is nothing more than a lipstick on a pig facelift of Moshe's ancient Symm design.
EMC and Dell or whatever name you want to give it has not been, and never will be innovators in any arena and with the shifting paradigm in the datacenter will soon be selling little more than dinosaur bones.
But you can keep on dreaming it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, I'll consider the source and go from there.
If you're complaining about cost of Symmetrix, VMAX, PowerMax arrays then you have no knowledge of large Enterprise Fortune companys or for that matter any major Government sites(mostly dark) which run this damn country. BTW there were several large bank data centers(located in twin towers) that would of gone down on 9/11 if it weren't for EMC arrays DR'd to NJ. You're one of those idiots that thinks every customer can run on public cloud.... LMAO. Your comments are totally ignorant and you have no idea what there talking about but I'll consider the source.
Raspberry pi W based servers? When will they launch such thing?
JC the tester has comeup with this idea SD and USB stick sandwitched to make this technology to work. it is knows as hybrid powerMAX. RAID 7, RAID 56 etc are in developmental stages.
IMHO, I've heard from the same source they're Working on 1T SD card which implements raid-5 on a USB stick.
Funny, I haven't heard of a "kick a--" machine coming from Dell/EMC since the merger.....
Yet another overpriced legacy based boat anchor from the remains of EMC. The number of customers able to afford the entry price of these boxes is pretty low which is why it's just another Symmetrix rehash with newer disk technology. Given the market it's aimed at I doubt Pure and Infinidat have much to fear from this, Mr Dell can't afford the cost of blank sheet design for a high end storage array so customers continue to get the same old junk with new covers and storage devices and a 50% markup in price and the market knows it..