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by SniperOwl 4082 days ago
Nimble, Pure and Nutanix are delivering easy to use, high performance storage/compute for a fraction of the cost of EMC and Netapp. This is reason why Netapp is losing clients to Nimble, and EMC is losing to Pure. Cisco should stay on their toes with Nutanix line of Software defined hardware.
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parasubvert 4082 days ago
EMC XtremeIO is giving Pure a strong run for its money.

EMC's biggest problem in storage isn't on the All-Flash side (XTremeIO is working as intended), it's that there's fewer reasons to buy the high end, high margin (VMAX) storage these days, and EMC needs to come up with a big margin patch... which it thinks it might have with DSSD [1] [2].

[1] https://storagemojo.com/2014/11/11/pure-vs-emc-whos-winning/ [2] https://storagemojo.com/2015/02/18/dssd-hiring-is-exploding/

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PhantomGremlin 4082 days ago
Companies follow a predictable lifecycle. E.g. several decades ago Netapp killed Auspex (and then acquired the IP!).[1] It's quite possible that one of these new companies will kill Netapp.

Edit: BTW Auspex had very nice hardware. But it was over-engineered and more expensive than Netapp. And snapshots on Netapp were better than anything Auspex had. So, more expensive hardware, inferior software. Not a good combination.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspex_Systems

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tw04 4082 days ago
Then you need a new sales rep. Nimble markets themselves as being a cheaper alternative but they absolutely are not. I've priced both and the 2500 is consistently cheaper per TB. Pure isn't even close and doesn't claim to be unless you're comparing $/IOP instead of $/GB, and even then if you find the right NetApp rep they'll at least make you decide on product features instead of price.
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simonebrunozzi 4082 days ago
What about Simplivity? Do you have any experience/opinion on them?
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SniperOwl 4082 days ago
I do not! Would love to hear more info, I am really only commenting on the hardware I know/own. But I have heard pretty good things about their replication and how they are neck and neck with Nutanix. I have UCS for my main sites, and Nutanix for my Remote offices and its working great!
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qthrul 4081 days ago
If you have any UCS C240 M3's then you may have SimpliVity options to explore. https://www.simplivity.com/products/omnistack-cisco-ucs/
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liveoneggs 4082 days ago
I'll bet many of those nimble customers go back to netapp.
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