Dear Father Christmas or can I call you Uncle Sam?
I'm not sure whether to write this letter to you or one of your subordinates but I'm a great believer going to straight to the top, so perhaps you can pass it down to Curtis if you feel the need to. Another typically solid year from the Infernal Blue Magicians tinged with a bit of scandal which we'll brush over; Magicians do sometimes go bad, especially Infernal Ones.
For a moment it all got a bit exciting tho'; almost buying the Sun but alas not to be. That would've been an interesting buy but I suspect with the travails that Uncle Larry is having in his purchase, I suspect you're quite glad to have walked away from that.
A couple of interesting storage announcements; a refresh for the DS8K, long overdue and just a little under-whelming but I've got a soft spot for the Shark range, so it's good to see there's life in the beast yet (and if you ever bump into Kristy Bell, I've not forgotten that she owes me a big favour).
And then there was new SVC release and I must ask, why aren't you trumpetting what this little box can do. There's loads of innovation in that box and loads more to come. I think the spirit of the Scottish Wizard is alive and well in the form of Barry Whyte. But more of that later…
And you've managed to sneak out a bit about the XIV roadmap prior to this Christmas.
Not a bad year but I'm sure you'll agree that you've got to deliver on some more goodies next year? You do, good! So this is what I'd like to see next year.
Is it not about time that you truly delivered on some of the promise in the DS8700 or just let it go? A soft spot I have for the beast but you've never really let it live to it's potential. Where's the TSM running in the array? Where's the database accelerator running in an LPAR? Perhaps Diligent in the array? Oh, the list almost endless but perhaps it might just be best to consider end of life-ing it.
SVC; look guys, you've got the basis for a V-MAX/USP killer there but you need to get out there and sell it properly. The work which is being done with SSDs is truly innovative; as innovative as anything the Elves are doing with their FAST. Perhaps it's time to turn it into an array which brings me onto XIV.
No-one believes you with regards to XIV and a single tier fitting all but with SVC in front of it; perhaps you've got a real winner there? SATA and SSD is where it's going to be in the future and with XIV and SVC, you've got just that.
And who do you think you are kidding with the 79 terabyte limit? Even with 2 terabyte drives; it's laughable but federated behind SVC? A tad more interesting don't you think? And RAID-X? Sorry, look at a proper parity based RAID scheme; look at 3Par's microRAID but no more 'Moshe Magic Mirroring'.
And just a personal request as it would make my life a little easier, can you go and buy DDN? Please? And open-source GPFS?
One more thing…scrap that abomination which is the TSM web interface; it's still crap and you'll never make it better!
Have a Great Christmas and New Year
Best Regards,
Storagebod
p.s tell that lazy Scotsman to stop playing with Lego and blog a bit more! And give him an expense account so he can come to #storagebeers
Infernal Blue Magicians? I thought we were the Itty Bitty Machine Company. Looks like I need to re-print my stock of company letterhead again…
Thanks for the ongoing commentary. The industry needs more commentators like you keeping us all honest. Have a Happy Christmas and further success in 2010!
Thanks for the compliment, and I know I’ve not blogged enough this year – but it has been crazy, and next year looks to be nothing short of the same!
Did make it to one #storagebeers and it was a good one – thanks again Chris 😉
Agree with KT – we need more “thoughts from the floor” out here – hope you and yours have a great break over the festive period.
Uncle Sam…cute.
A personal request to buy DDN? Why do you think it would make your life easier? It would change mine dramatically and not sure whether for the better!