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#58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers

20 July 2018 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers

This week, Chris Mellor is back and the team take a dive into the subject of storage vendor hero numbers.  What are hero numbers?  We've all seen them, they're the huge performance figures quoted by all-flash storage vendors aimed at putting their products forward in the best light possible. Are hero numbers believable or should we be looking at certified vendor benchmark … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: All-flash, ChrisE, chrism, Dell EMC, IBM FlashSystem, MartinG, NVMe, Pure Storage, Violin Systems

#54 – Are we at All-flash and HDD Array Price Parity?

22 June 2018 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#54 – Are we at All-flash and HDD Array Price Parity?

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the subject of price parity between all-flash and hybrid or HDD-based storage arrays.  From Martin's perspective, he is starting to see vendor pricing getting close to parity and it making more sense to buy all-flash than a spinning media device.  However, what are the issues?  TCO is one - it's not all about array pricing.  Also, flash … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: #934E, All-flash, flash, MLC, NAND, shared storage, SLC

Soundbytes #009: FlashArray Update With Ivan Iannaccone at Pure Accelerate

15 June 2017 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

Soundbytes #009: FlashArray Update With Ivan Iannaccone at Pure Accelerate

The following podcast was recorded at Pure Accelerate in San Francisco in June 2017.  The recording was made behind the main stage, so apologies for the background noise which does get pretty loud for a while!  Chris talks to Ivan Iannaccone, Director of Product Management (also known as Emperor of Flash) at Pure Storage.  The conversation goes through the new software features … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Soundbytes Tagged With: All-flash, ChrisE, Pure Accelerate, Pure Storage

Garbage Collection – All-flash Market Consolidation

3 November 2016 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

Garbage Collection – All-flash Market Consolidation

In this opinion piece, recorded on 31 October 2016, Martin Glassborow, Chris Mellor and Chris Evans discuss the state of the all-flash market and what we can expect to happen to the remaining all-flash startup vendors.  We discuss Violin's delisting, talk about the range of vendors and size of the market.  Mr Mellor presents his interpretation on the "Supernatural Quadrangle" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: All-flash, ChrisE, chrism, MartinG

All-Flash – Does it Justify a Market Segment?

28 October 2016 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

All-Flash – Does it Justify a Market Segment?

All-Flash has been highlighted as a specific market segment within the storage industry.  Initially this was probably justified because of the number of new start-ups that were developing for the market.  With all of the major storage vendors either amending or acquiring technology, is there really a justification for having a separate market segment for all-flash or should we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers Tagged With: All-flash, Bob Madaio, ChrisE, Hitachi, MartinG

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